Get out of
bed
Untangle from
sheets
And
breathe
Each day
new
Another crack at
life
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Get out of
bed
Untangle from
sheets
And
breathe
Each day
new
Another crack at
life
Is it vague for good reason,
or vague for lack of meaning?
It’s a struggle not to tell,
exactly what I’m dealing.
It’s more or less about
the act, that is perceiving.
It is vague for vagueness sake
for whatever needs believing.
Like an archer without aim
I’ve shot myself so many times
into the dark of day.
Like a horse’s leg gone lame
I’ve broken mine so many times
into the dark of day.
Like night and day the same
I’ve hid away so many times
into that dark of day.
Though a dear friend it became,
farewell the night
which lit the way
out of
the dark of day.
This morning, a sparrow
gnaws at my ear, his absence
is all that I see, while sunlight
casts shadows on tree limbs
I hear, nothing but sparrow clearly
while stillness, and calm
fly all through the air, impressions
a Renoir scene, two sparrow
take wing, like dancers I hear
them tip toe paint gracefully.
If I wasn’t me
what would I see?
Life’s laundry list, a repeating theme.
In times like these
things start to get clean,
it’s just all the other times,
that have left me soiled, but boy oh boy
that’s not the point of today.
Bare bones in the wash, dare tell what they say?
If what I see, is merely a shell
then I’ve got some listening to do
before hearing that ocean once more.
Little squirrels
selectively seeking
acorns, oak trees
perfection, little hunters
in the daylight, scrounging
to find, hold, and bury
any nourishment
granted, before those hawks
circling overhead
make their selection.
Surely, this, isn’t, healthy
but the alternative just seems
so entirely soul crushing
that if this, is, so, unhealthy
than there surely must be
an option C: since A & B
are now, defunct.
I can turn it on
I can turn it off
a flick of a switch
or one more thought?
For better or worse
no light is wasted
if someone, somewhere
is reading in the dark.
You’re not as cool
as you think you are,
you’re also
not as grotesque.
Just something to
think about, just
something to accept.
If nothing else sticks
take solace in that,
life happens—and—you die,
between the lines
there’s simply time.
For what?
Bah! You tell me!
Besides,
I’ve got to get my watch fixed.