Wobble
Charles Fields II 1955 (Fort Bragg, NC)
Can you imagine,
introspectively
More than just
the circle of your friends
A line running way past the present,
even seeing around corners,
where one life begins
another ends
Adding
all the angles
of your ancestral humanity
From subtle beginnings
every source
of humble blends,
beyond all awareness
of just who it is
you think you are.
Not to mention
whoever it is you
may claim to be
extending further
than the full sphere
of your interactions.
One step past
what used to be
called infinity
to the threshold
of the periphery
Of where anyone
who has ever held a claim
To be adventurous,
has ever chanced to dream
Was so damn scared,
had to make a deal with God.
Faith put to the test
in a prayer to let them see
What comes next.
Even if, it meant
they couldn't ever
return to talk about it,
to teach anyone who might desire
a chance to learn
what terminal point
redemption could ever settle
with the great unknown
Like the first broad strokes
of the brush,
painted the first symbols
across the sands of time
To step
upon the virgin snow
of creativity
To revel in the treasury
of spiritual reverence
To bask
in the soft warming glow,
to see,
know
Feeling reflections
written across souls
of all those
Who dared
cross the stream,
reading between lines
See themselves
fitting discretely,
in the complexity
The behind the scenes,
connectivity...
To skip a stone
upon the surface
of the pond
Lost in the wealth
of the myriad potentialities
Drifting in the winds
of time and space
More than a simple soul
on this rock we roll on
A sentinel seeing through the light
And into the darkness
Through the mists
of times before?
Seeing the unseen,
knowing more about
How lightning bolts fly
than nature could provide
to learn by bending light
back twice upon itself
as if by circumstance,
as we find ourselves
Following in the patterns of ideas
we've come to know
as reasonable facsimiles
of the truth about who of what,
we've managed to come to be.
Just as the flow of the raindrops
falling through the clouds,
ride the winds,
down through space
to the earth below.
Rising and circling
back down,
to find life
within the living.
Not just
to blindly follow
the path of least resistance,
as it is said...
Though,
how many times
does this interactive path
Come full circle
like hailstones,
gathering multiple coats,
like snowflakes,
drifting quietly as ghosts.
As we have mastered
seven different modes of fire
to melt our butter,
warm our toast
yet, why are we not yet wise enough
to dissipate the waves of intolerance,
before they rise and ride
In the tides of pain,
misery, death …and war?
What are we thinking about?
Going somewhere…
Else?
C2
Copyright ©2022 Charles Edward Fields 2
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Written on 2020
Submitted by Charles2 on August 31, 2023
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