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Kevin Rich Aug 2015
#11
we walked till our feet hurt
and we could go no more
and in that moment we landed
explorers who have yet to explore
and nothing was ever quite so lovely
as when we first stepped ashore
and nothing will ever be
and nothing will ever be
and nothing will ever be so inexplicably, inescapable, unseen
Kevin Rich Aug 2015
Constantly constructing equations
to calculate emotional reactions
taking up too much time
now my heads lost in this fog
become too lost
all this time caught
in counting milligrams
and microdots
we are all too lost
focused on reminiscent
loops to remember that
the future can hold
something new
take two moments
and change scenery
two breaths was all
it ever took to forget
the part that fights for me
in all moments just
be …... beautiful imagery
paint pictures like reality
is imaginary

leaving spaces vacant
all time erases
complacent patrons
nearing the end
off a long road otherwise
known, as patience
blatant irregularities
combatant singularity
take time and revel in
the hilarity of how
this has turned sour
as month old dairy
already milked the
moment
for all it's worth
Kevin Rich Aug 2015
And vision splinters
fractal incisions
splicing decisions
matter en matter
inquisition
left behind
the difference
in one kind
against the brilliance
of a dying
sun's last luminescence
and so we too
forget the essence
of this message
the beauty
in delivery
pull back
the mask
Kevin Rich Aug 2015
there’s a certain trickery 
in realizing dreams
a deep sense of urgency
dissipating
mind no longer
berating 
body
a soft calm washes over
but only momentary
those seconds past
we cling so closely
only it won’t ever last
thick smoke curls upwards
heaven bound
released from the flames
of a downward spiral
a descent so excellent
in the span of a breath
inhale
exhale
on to the next step
Kevin Rich Aug 2015
that feat of a daredevil
tiptoeing across a wire line
after pondering this concept
I find it to be an excellent
metaphor for life
so precarious we edge forward
as the growing slack sways 
gently at first as we gain footing
but maneuvering becomes more quite
a bit more difficult along the way
soon enough we swing with the breeze
no fixtures for guidance but
a passerby bird flapping its wings
and a brief moment of optimism
if all we can see, and like the
bird . . . fly free
Kevin Rich Aug 2015
Home, an idea intangible to grasping hands. Scenery change a constant invariable, variably leads to a physical manifestation of home dissipating as if memories were clouds. Home seems only to reside in the past, never in the now. Moments, long gone, bring comfort only in their clarity. Lost along a forward path with certainty blazed into the past, but even footsteps wash away, the brush, foliage, creeps further forward every day. Soon enough we all become lost along the way. Let us step off this sordid ground and take off into the sea. Despite the sting of a salty breeze, for once I feel as if I can clearly see what’s around. Past, future, and now, simultaneously. These will be the things bring me to that place so often called home. Hopefully.

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