Month: February 2019

A difference
In opinion
Between
Time and
Space

If no one ever
Reads the words
Formed from the thoughts
Once held in my head
Did I ever think those thoughts?

If no one ever
Returned the love
Someone selflessly gave
Once held in their heart
Did they ever feel it?

If no one ever
Sings the song
Though someone plays the melody
That begs for accompaniment
Is it really music?

What is a riddle
Without someone to ponder it?
What is a joke
Without someone to laugh at it?
What is a child
Without someone to teach it?

What happens to dreams
If all we do is never sleep?
What happens to our days
If all we do is dream?
What happens to the world
If we are never there?

What is a god without worshippers?
What is a people without faith?
What is religion that condemns?
What is science that destroys mystery?
What is rationality without bounds?
What is spirituality that dooms us?

What is the sound
Of no one listening?
What is seen
If everybody looks the other way?
What is known
If no one’s there
To think about it?

I’m looking for someone–
A freighter pilot
Who owes a lot money

When we try to collect
What is owed
From this person
He shoots first–

He may have
Blasted poor Guido
And evaded
The imperials

But he hasn’t
Fooled me

Finally got to
Talk to you
And I like
What I’m hearing
What are you
Doing later?
But you’ve
Already walked
Away since
It’s way past
Your bedtime

Party just started
And I got here
Too soon
By the time
I’m supposed
To leave
You will have
Finally arrived
And I can
Never get
To know you
Because all opportunities
Will have become
Extinct

Without wings to keep me aloft
With only dreams to keep my head in the clouds
I have taken the leap
From an impossible situation
Because I want to believe
I always have a choice
Even now–

The building is collapsing
All doors lead nowhere
The only exits are windows
Onto the world from
A hundred stories above

What will they think
If they realize it is me
A spectacle for all to see
Returning to earth clumsily
Though I knew I couldn’t fly?

But all that I have left
Is faith that you
Will finally find me
Because I decided to
Jump into your arms

No one
Complains
About a shortage

When there’s
An abundance
Nobody
Wants to
Hoard it

You say
I do
A great job
But do you
Say that
Because
It’s true
Or because
No one else
Will do
The job?