Who's Counting?
Who's counting when your number is up, who counts in the end of the winning
the lost numbers left behind battered
and beaten from the struggle for one
that incessant number that rings of more
ONE
has to be
WON
of loss is the automatic second place
without a face or a recall that only
wished to be not but a number
but counted as a player...
Who's counting the losers
the movers the shakers and groovers,
who's counting on fingers gone limp
from pointing down at those below,
a matter of perspective, detective,
count that into the vast amounts
accumulated for posterity - numbers
random and numbers granted to
those that matter and those souls
long forgotten as numbers passed
from memories alive in this number
we have deemed necessary to sustain
the count that grows and diminishes
like waves rolling in and tides rushing out
no doubt based upon some numbers
derived from calculations divided by pi
advanced into geometries of macabre
limitations associated with the Count
like Dracula whispering delight of the bite
the cyber-byte connected to the count...
the numbers collide in machines made
using numbers to decide truths over theories
who's counting when the storms roll in
and the lightning strikes over the map
on tv screens hooked to numbers that
amass the times which all numbers are
the turbulence of nine fulfilling the wish
birthed at one and counting up the downshaft
the mirrored One deceiving the receiving
with adjacent make-beliefs degrading
the numerical intonations tattooed on thighs
sighing the numbers of times the needle
pierced the flesh that lives thru numbers
only to end on the count of not one nor nine
but zero time left as the breath
inhales the final fragrance of this life
based upon the algebraic numbers that pierce
the secrets long hidden in ignorance
shadows laughing
out loud with the counting of deceptions
Number? who's counting today while yesterday
another one counted like the other count before?
Who's counting the counter and who's the One
that numbs the number to remove it's thorn in
the side that wins while so many lose in the
march of numbers calculated to win that which
has been pre-decided upon the count of more
beginning at
ONE
ending within
the mystery of
ZERO
cecil
June 14, 2009
