For the words
that heal & heave
boulders through
walls, meaning-
less barriers of hate
For logic & reason to
forge tomorrow today,
this moment that ebbs
& flows so fluidly
through paradoxicity
For the meaning of
being, life & love,
colors of things beneath
our luminous sun, reflected
in the iris of time
For dreams forgotten in
the dead of night, the moon
carved high in the void
of lives borne & buried,
half-remembered, but…
For what matters
between something & nothing
though we can’t see it
clearly, it’s there
begging to be found
For the choices
that carry forward, not back
against voices of truth
that bellow deep within
these fleshy heaps of sin
For my soul’s intent,
which seems hell-bent,
or at least inflamed,
with desire to puzzle,
create, pattern & game
For the joy gone
hiding in plain view
that beckons laughter
out of silence, droning
across the roads
For inspiration
bubbled up raw, collected
scoops of sinewy thought
whizzing & whirring faster
each cycle, begins anew
For clues to history’s
key, to unlock our stories
for all, together at once
with abundant humility
to sustain this tree
For the blocks & atoms,
wavelets & platelets bouncing,
skipping, hissing & twisting
reality betwixt our view
with simple pleasure
For the purpose
in this poem’s lines,
words & characters forming
a lattice-like guise, all
in the name of feint surprise