Friday, December 24, 2021

open stance

It’s not what you know it’s what

you’ve learned through brick and

bone and the all alone when

the sky falls down and the heart

dies from the ungodly cacophony,

the way the world is only here

until something chases everything away.

Mostly we won’t let our limits 

tell us our truths, the facts

helpless before the faith we go 

all in on. It still falls as hard,

the equal of any storybook hell 

smacked right on top of us,

the mountain without the invitation.

History arrives at the insistence of

a telling, this witness 

lost weeping on the road.

Everywhere thieves and murderers

work their angles unopposed,

so we turn the world offering 

an empty hand to controvert 

the forces that would destroy.

So go the gods and monsters and

devastations of that ilk, defeated

with one long breath and

a simple step to the side.

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