Month: October 2021

Heat Lighting

Probability says anything

can be accounted for…

anything.

I’ve drifted through enough decades

to smell

(from a distance)

bullshit.

The worst ideas

have been given

a fresh start

underneath the tutelage

of a waiting adversary.

We let this poison

be made ready.

(We set it against ourselves,

and sheltered it.)

Now we find

the incipient growth

has become a force

beyond our initial fears…

outside our previous bounds.

We must retrace our steps,

rediscover what we thought

of our former selves.

These are our flaws,

honestly earned,

from our misdeeds.

Pick your pillow.

Now we all lie.

Embarcadero a la muerte

I guess the worst of it

is the betrayal

of things once held

dear.

Now I surrender ideals

like a 19th century

baloonist.

Things that were once

so special,

now chucked to the side…

forgotten.

It’s my jetsam.

I’ll bear witness,

to my own failings,

thank you.

Now I navigate

with nothing more

than the arc described

by my discarded ideals…

I can see the path

my failures have described.

I cannot complain.

But

I will.