
I turn over and the rush comes.
A million pinpricks of light
usher into me – away from me;
stunning me from the useless sleep.
A rest of hurried
dizziness and a grappling float
to ease the sting and bite of
gnarled, cankered reality is not
the forefront of my need.
I want for more
though I shall not have it.
Possessions and achievements
turn to disease of lust of
my collections- a pride with reason.
I was so in love with the
season of my creations.
All is lost yet it is not.
A clock somewhere on some cheap
imitation wall keeps tocking at me.
It tells me time keeps going and
ushers me to move with it-
I do, it isn’t the hardest thing-
it won’t be the easiest thing.
Still just the same I move along.
Now weathered and scared;
broken and mending I see myself
as neither one thing nor the other.
I simply am- a state of being.
Whether reality is questionable
I am still here just the same.
As i have always been since my
defusable birth.
Streets I pass are never mended.
Always broken cracks to step over
Always rainy sidewalks to sniff
the fresh of scattered dirt and
welcome in the autumn and the spring rains.
Life walks with me as i breathe in the sultry
And sometimes frigid air of wind.
I feel it through my hair like some
strange caress and I close
my eyes to take it in.
The only affection i need-
the only affection with
which I am in love.
As scattered eyes may look at me
to find me an enigma
i keep moving and ignore it
save for questions answered wholly.
I am not some porcelain god
sat up on a rickety shelf in
the master’s great china shop.
I am not The bull in the stampede
of knocking, thrashing,
stabbing horns during the running.
In my life I am neither
fearless nor with fear.
I am not strong nor un-strong.
Simply I find myself neutral.
A basin in the wake of a great Niagara.
Everything falls into me
but never returns from me.
And So I turn over and the rush comes.
A million pinpricks of light
usher into me – away from me;
stunning me from the useless sleep.
A rest of hurried
dizziness and a grappling float
to ease the sting and bite of
gnarled, cankered reality is not
the forefront of my need
nor ever will it be…