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Past, Present, and Future Tense

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Published: Jul 10, 2015

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Weeping willows of after-thought

Dangling dream-like on a streaming celestial carpet
of star shine and moonbeams,

Distant planets hang on hope

Over ebon velvet cloak of home
While we sit in wonder, pondering:

Is there more than just this moment?

A brief breath of breeze
dancing over endless fields of wildflowers

Amber grain, all that waves in vast valleys of...

...could be.... should be...
And, it is, you know

In deepest hearts of gold mines

Eyes full of ignorance; jewels – a treasure trove
worthy of saving, guarding – but never hoarding

For under the care of misers in the guise of guardians

That which is worth holding on to in fervor
is soon lost.. depleted...

Reduced to little more than grains of sand

Picked up and carried far and away -
Spread and strewn by heavy-handed waves

Tide and tidal, unconscious, careless and apathetic

Remorseless in its force, mindless of the erosion
Eternally pounding out and corroding

The very foundation of imaginary security and safety

Eating away at certainty
Here. There. Everywhere.

Where “Once Upon a Time,” is set as a magical sword in stone

Waiting for the boy, pure of heart
to alter the course of history

With one mighty yank of the hilt

He, and we, carry the weight of the world
in the act of our very existence

As day to night, dusk to dawn;

Harvest and fallow; season to season
It is on our tongues -

The light in our hearts... our eyes,

Stones and butterflies in our stomach
Dreams, nightmares, intuition and portends

Though we see it not

And our only proof
is in the tales of our ancestors

Found in the ruins and wreckage of lost civilizations

These are the acumen of the mantra:
To all of this – There is some reason