Let me get this down
while it’s fresh in my mind.
Too late.
The thought seems to have escaped.
I tried,
but I failed.
Pretty common thing these days.
Half the things in my mind
seem to be trying to get away.
And that’s okay.
Why not let them go?
Still so much to learn,
so much to know.
Why not burn
a few memories.
light them up
and watch them glow.
Flying in whichever way
today’s breeze blows.
I have a few to spare
and who would care
if I just filled this whole world up
with escaped thoughts
and not even be aware.
After all,
ideas don’t take up much space.
They’re lighter than air.
I’ve gone on too long.
Didn’t let the world do me wrong.
At least,
not as much as I did.
Fell apart as a kid
and spent the rest of my life
trying to fit
a life back together,
but I had never
known what life to live.
Like a knife in the ribs.
Twice what I tried to have been.
Rose up,
froze up,
but learned how to forgive.
Or at least I tried to.
Wide view of a prairie morning.
Ignoring the life I’m losing
and choosing the sky for soaring.
The Earth is boring,
if it’s not full of ideas.
So, I’ll let a few become real
and feel no remorse
if the rest escape
in the course of this great reveal.
Life is just too short
to not feel
everything.
DJR – 2023
