Scott Thomas Outlar- Three Poems

Focal Point

  

There is only so much truth

to go around

among the various cults

where such a thing is scarce.

The truth of God is righteous,

but the cults of dogma

are dead weight

in the human psyche.

The truth of scientific fact is sweet,

but the cults of theory

are a poison

polluting indoctrinated minds.

The truth of sovereignty is holy,

but the cult of collectivism

is a government decree

that is destined to die hard.

The truth of love is a lullaby,

but the cult of hatred

is a sad song

that soon shall be silenced.

There is only so much truth

to go around

in the decadent institutions

of this world…

let them burn

The truth is eternal

in the kingdom found within

and always rises

in the end…

reveal the revolution

“Focal Point” originally appeared in Dissident Voice.

Variations on a Theme

  

She covers my grave in roses.

She stuffs my mouth with thorns.

She calls forth acid rain

to drench the cemetery plot

where I am reborn as a zombie.

I am the Nothing Man.

I am the New Wave.

I am the Renaissance,

birthed anew with the eyes of a Beast,

the heart of a dying world,

the mind of a black tumor,

the spirit of a raging fire,

and the final truth of a flailing supernova.

I am the essence of morphine

dripping into the splintered veins

of a body where the lungs no longer breathe.

I am the Police State cancer

flooding over a primal riot

as the stitches fall out

and pent up frustration bursts at the seams.

I am the Amazon,

cut off at the knees,

starving for a new harvest,

spitting out the last lungful of oxygen.

I am the image of tomorrow

hauntingly cast through a cracked crystal ball,

drowning the wasteland with silent chaos.

I am the muscle that has atrophied.

I am the kidney that no longer flushes.

I am the liver that has evolved into a leech.

I am the mutation of a thousand mistakes.

“Variations on a Theme” originally appeared in Void Magazine.

Larger View

  

When you try to say everything

all at once

it leaves you with nothing

in the end

The truth is bigger

than one moment

Slow down and simplify…

eternity came equipped with patience

“Larger View” originally appeared in The Word Ocean.

Bio:

Scott Thomas Outlar hosts the site 17Numa.wordpress.com where links to his published poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews can be found. His chapbook "Songs of a Dissident" was released in 2015 through Transcendent Zero Press and is available on Amazon. Scott's full-length collection "Happy Hour Hallelujah" is forthcoming in 2016 through CTU Publishing.