To become aware of the single moment that needs interpreting To be jolted from sleep between sheets creased in the tribulations of dreamscapes Clammy hand pressed to neck you remember yourself And before it slips and crumbles spiraling up to the cosmos it is captured Pinch your eyes together and draw the cool water from the well
A friendβs arm around your shoulder; a sweaty smile, meandering through The crowds of faces, each one drab and still, motionless for you Tendrils of tenderness wandering oβer a body consumed in secret greed and corrosion And the cheeky faced attached returning curiosity masked in love Flitting up and down the stem of the one you knew to be yours Yearning for her to open her petals and reward arduous labor The repose of correcting ages of missteps and the satisfaction of Correctly placing lost experience Enjoying the rhythm pounded out by drums of progress, and then pacing To one all your own Reasserting brutal individuality in spite of legions upon legions of conformity Then ironically setting the trend
Once seized, every vague trapping melts down weary head, past hunched back Beyond knees bend to reach toe tip Revitalized by the comfortable shade of your whole self, the parts unwanted, unseen Usurped, intangible, inconceivable, and most illustrated purely glow A self if surely sacked, a reanimated soul now softly speaks, and sexuality is assured in Each slow step