Emotional Ocean

James Ph. Kostybar

Scared to look love hatefully in the face,

shamed by selfish blemishes reflected,

idealism shallows your emotion,

since the true depth of feeling’s rejected.

 

But the tides of your being don’t change pace,

because you think that they need correction,

and, down at its depths, no emotion’s base,

since surface alone can’t hold perfection.

 

Plunge through the levels, unafraid to find

your unalterable alterations,

which, of course, exist only in the mind –

those menial, mental masturbations

that tell you hate can’t undercurrent love,

or selfishness never rises above.

James Ph. Kotsybar's poetry is, published in six countries, as well as Mars, aboard NASA's MAVEN, as part of Hubble Space Telescope’s Mission Log, on its 20th Anniversary and was awarded and featured at NASA’s Centaur’s 50th Anniversary Art Challenge. Other honors include State Poetry Society of Michigan and Balticon Competitions. Invited in 2018 to read for Troubadours, (Europe’s oldest literary institution) in their founding city of Toulouse, France, at EuroScience Open Forum, Europe's largest interdisciplinary science event, earning a standing return invitation to this science meets poetry event. He has performed his poetry to L.A. dance clubs (Lhasa), onstage at the Los Angeles Performing Arts Center and Santa Barbara's Granada Theater, and sung the poetry of William Blake with Allen Ginsberg (from the audience) at the Old Victoria Theater in Santa Barbara.