Acknowledgement, Or, Sine Qua Non | sincerely written by a Faust

 

Acknowledgement

or, Sine Qua Non

Like an acknowledgement quite written while its work is still but —  gleam

this from the hip opinion might be called lazy, selfish, worse

— by idiots alone. Notwithstanding how it seem

I know well to whom I owe my thankfulness for any skill at verse.

There is the subject, & the object, & there is also the — objective

There are those who help revision, help me focus, & refine

But there would be — well, nothing, save my own muted perspective

If I hadn’t grown within the wit with which I choose combine

O thou from my birth attendant, O ability discoveréd, Divine!

O friendship ever present, O Joy immeasurable on finding, 

O that which moves within me, to whose mine own  thoughts incline

O Spirit I must & always thank you, & should never need reminding:

My go to illustration of  philosophical supervenience

Is any other thing soever to my mind, 

&… my own

GENIUS.