Kernel Panic - Alkaloid

The mind is willing

But the flesh is stuck in evolution’s lazy stride

The vision dies, the door is locked

Time and again, the dream’s denied

Abjure the somatic tether

That binds our world together

Conjure flesh under will

Spin, spin go the baryons

Round and round, a ballet in stasis

Unchanging, they carry on

Lest chance and law start trading places

And lysergic amino acids levitate

Free and placid

Elevate the yoke of our physique

A new wind howls

Through the gallery of thoughts

Athwart reality

Kernel panic erupts in synaptic galaxies

When descending deep enough

Into the heart of what we are

One soon discovers matter’s bluff:

Stuff is made from nothing at all

A creature of habit is our universe

Profound the terror

Of the atom, the molecule, the cell

When faced with change;

To desire it — perverse

Invoking it — an inconceivable hell

Until being dies and becoming awakens