You should turn on your headlights and come drive ’round here
Get here fast, then cruise real slow
For this pavement may not be ready yet for such a soulful soul
Such intention and growl, bold and sweet, has long been absent from this street
May spinning wheels find linear track
Have a song playing loud in your heart, so the whole neighborhood knows
Your intentions
Whatever they may be
I’ve no wants or words of wisdom there, and you’ll do what you want, anyway
As you should, but I will say
You should turn on your headlights and come drive ’round here
The usefulness of tears
Like goodtime words
During midnight promises
Overrated, I promise
Necessary, nonetheless
When human tendency
Atom energy
And Universe certainty
Collide
All such beautiful
Such swirling and billowing
Energy in you
Acting as mountains
On universe energy
Proves to me we’re ours
Photo Credit: Anonymous sister on my behalf, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Art Credit: LOVE Sculpture, Robert Indiana; Milwaukee Art Museum
Melt, faster this time
Dissipate, finally, then
Rise again to pow’r
A soul set aflame
A heart that stirred when hearing
The sound of my voice
…and I’ll find my way,
striding on the energy.
Nay -dancing, on it.
Tho’ my joints should ache
I’ll know that I cannot care
…there’s a row to hoe.
With the compressed exuberance of a schoolroom full of children penned
Spilled then to the play yard uncontained
There bravely apart will always stand
The One boy
On the outside looking in
With a sing-song strong voice no one will hear
Quick to smile eyes that yet catch no gaze
An uncommon courage the only company, she stands back, knowing her place