Where is the fire
Turn your eyes in every which way
There's the sense of hypocrisy
Deep in these hearts
Where is their fire
When all around there is such need
Abled-hand we and knowing mind
Is seems that there is no care
Where is our fire
Something is burning
The stench of it fills the nostrils
We've been warned against the lukewarm
You're tolerating
Your mere mortality, your
Immorality
Scene; The wet silence
They cause to become ominous
When you wish a mere escape
Can we not look away
What more do we want
How much don't they think we can take
You've what cools me
As the purr
Of a hungry cat
Trying not to ask
That kind
Of cool
How you warm me
As I watch
Morning's early dew
Set silent and still
While busy, flying things
Tend to my eyes
Since I’ve created
A virtual haven here
I’ll uncreate it
Henceforth, you’re banished
Though I love you, I love you,
I’ll be my own friend
We are the In
Between
The Middle
Absorbing and reflecting back
All the inspiration they have inside
We are the Many
Around
The Gate
Herding and harnessing
All the good they long to give
I heard him begin to breathe deep
Even breaths
Slipping away into sleep
Lulled
Garrison Keillor on the radio
If there’s ever a doubt
That the universe exists
As much in us as we in it
Watch and listen
To a child
And a storyteller
At the same time
And it all went black
There in the moment I realized
Nobody makes promises anymore
No one has courage
Take vows from the ink
Make them come alive
And the heat lightning rap-rap-rap-rapping
‘gainst my glass window pane
Will not prompt me to doubt
It all went black
“You’re not putting me
on some timetable devised
by you, lover boy.”
You came to my heart
As a pinpoint white light
You said “You’re Welcome.”
