Sole Intention Poem by Rodney Dufault

Today, my sole intention is to open your eyelids,
so you can see the world from the dimension that I did.
The inventions of my descension into bloody violence
and an honorable mention to my ascension from all the silence.

First off, I want to talk about all my inspirations,
the reasons why I can have so many aspirations
to continue in the face of defeat, continue life's investigations,
seek answers to equations more complicated than space is.

I don't want to talk about my youth, for it was a nightmare.
Nobody could see the truth, even when it was right there.
I'm going to skip past that and bring you to right where
I found a few reasons to fight and why that I might care.

People. Nothing else has ever really made a difference.
Charles Glenn, the first man to make me face my ignorance.
Marcus Thomas, who was there when I became carnivorous.
William Smith, who brought me in from out of the wilderness.

Had a few teachers too, who taught me that I was smarter.
They tried to teach me that I didn't have to be a martyr.
Had a reputation to keep now so I would just riot harder,
and if you could see flames then I was the fire starter.

I was locked up for my first 19 years, then they released me.
Turned me into an animal, it felt more like they unleashed me.
Waiting for me to fail but there is nothing that can surcease me,
and all you crooked police can lie beneath where the deceased be.

Letha Eastman, that was the angels name when first I met her.
There was something about her that told me to just 'go get her'.
It didn't take long until we belonged to eachother forever,
and I could not imagine a world without both of us together.

If you have heard of M theory, then try to imagine this:
A world in which every possibility at this moment now exists.
Now imagine all my pain, can you begin to get the gist?
This has to be one of the best possible outcomes that there is.

My son is the fire inside my heart that keeps me going,
without Maximillian in there my blood would keep from flowing.
But my heart is indeed showing no signs of ever slowing.
Overflowing with love, overtaking this undergoing.