Friday, July 14, 2023

Underbrush

 

Concrete eyes, disguised rain, cheery & laughing, a lilting voice.

So much to dying, its intricacies, sound is damaged.

Make a future, raise a child, love one with fever.

I was naïve, I thought more of souls, so much we do to deny self.

In moving motion, locomotive waves, abstract forgiveness—to insist upon skies.

I see it clearly. I meditated it. I was in a trance by it. I held my ideals.

I’ve reason to believe—in a deep secret, to imagine how much Love is adored.

Sat in class, noticed, for no good reason: I faint to imagine what was said.

Concrete arms, asphalt legs, to know what we see.

Strumming a Harp

By language we speak to audibility and coherence. To compose to feel understood, in spite of language applied. A person spends years misunde...