Ahem

I knew you once
I had a friend
I moved away
Our time did end

Oh you, always
you did excel
sportlich, brilliant
you would do well

como el sol
you did give light
now from afar
you twinkle bright

once I wondered
you disappeared
among so many
stars in the sky

now I wander
across the night
earthly confines
not on my mind

Life was simply
too amazing
blew my mind up
gave me hiccups

til I learned to
pilot soberly
Starship earth I'll
fly to you, you'll see

You'll see how we
now are grown men
Men! What a wild
dream this is

Now do we be
perpetrators
actors, serious
movers, shakers

Like ancient kings
railroad tycoons
bandits, gangsters
artists, mystics

What are you now?
My telescope
was only so good
showed where, not what

Like any star
your point of light
would glimmer, shine
Boring, from here

You must have had
your flares, your storms
Megatons roil
Elements boil

Supernova?
I don't think so
but I am no
astronomer

Perhaps you have
become a dwarf
Again, I doubt
but we will see

Do you sport life?
Have planets, wife?
Have struggle, strife?
Enjoy your life?

Do you burn hot?
or not, or what?
diligent work?
lazily shirk?

Are you pulled-on?
puppet-like led?
Pushed by fam'ly?
Beaten... dead?

You look fine yet
from here, yet we
know how space works
light years hide tears

What news from you?
A heart that was
once mine, now grown
apart in time

Yet roots and vines
do intertwine
is that you there?
I feel my roots...
twitching

Keep writ(h)ing

Write a poem, dreamer

make a rhyme, like in ancient time

they did, before investing in paper

or cutting quills, they rapped

quipped, cleverly

jumped, excitedly, sang

inspired others to wildness of excess

brought flames from mid-breast

poured ashes, beat chest

cried to see how others

would react

to me

Me is little

I am often found

floating free, irresponsibly

in the lowest sectors of society

I am where I want to be

My friends tried

to give me pride

pushed aside

they glide

through time

until I find

the solar system

where I was meant to be

but the sun keeps coming with

as if I am, already, where

I was meant to be

Floating free

Little me

We spin and fly

Ball of Earth, no sky

That sky is such a thin shell

A membrane we know only too well

from the inside, from beneath

We cut our teeth on it

Ceramic tiles help

We whelp

Advancing, pain

Squirming, prancing

Babies rain from hospitals

We make more, teach them to fly

Encourage them to break

the sky with rockets

Why not

It’s there, isn’t it?

Look at that shit, all blue

Sometimes black, how dare

those stars exist so far from where

we are, from where we die

from where we cry, just

how are we going

to impress them

own them

I

know

not what effect

our transmissions

are having on extra-

terrestrial observers, what

impression would you get, only

watching our films and internets?

Pushing and striving, struggling, thriving
Not quite fighting to stay alive, we
do something quite curious, aye, we
fight to make sure that we're struggling

It's a game we play, lest the neighbors should say
that he knows someone's getting it easy
"Not me!" say we, "It's as hard as could be,"
and then go and turn on the TV.

You wouldn't believe, what, at work,
it was like today. Some person said x
and then someone said y and oh boy
did it go down from there

Did you hear about the tornado
Oh yes, in Oklahoma?
Oh my do we people suffer
at the hands of the Almighty!

An earthquake, too, in China, oh why
And those terrorists, shooting up the Middle East
I hear Latin America's got drugs!
Oh yez, all these inhuman influenzes

Oddly enough, most folks that I know
Never saw anything really brutal
Isn't that weird... how does a body relate
To real, direct fear and hate?

Myself, I've never seen
A person dead, a severed head
Nor disaster, silence after
Now, mind you, that's not a complaint!

Just the same, what is this game
we play... football
the poor of the world call
to the Lord, ignored

Remember when you understood
The words from your family, friends
Remember everything that happened
Yesterday

Describe your heart, your feeling
When you prepared yourself
When you looked in the mirror
Today

Inside and outside, conflicting
Meet between your eyes
You know that your time is coming
Tomorrow

The millions of millions of movements
Manipulation of membranes
moment by moment
Everyday

Breathe

The knowledge that people die
The persistent question why
The question of the meaning of "I"
Forever