Look!
a poem
Special thanks to my friend, the wonderful Beth Kephart who inspired this poem from a prompt, then gave notes which brought me this finished poem. She suggested I share it here, so I am.
Look, I know it’s not easy
Look, it’s not your fault
Look how everyone scatters
Look how some come back
Look, you mean well
(Look, you think you do)
Look, I believe in change because I have no choice it’s going to happen no matter what it already has and it won’t stop and I don’t want it to stop becasue it means I’m alive and right now now my cells are taking in oxygen and glucose, releasing carbon dioxide, heat, and waste. Proteins are folding and unfolding, ions are moving across membranes, old cells are breaking down, new ones are forming, signals are being sent and received. Nothing is staying the same.
Look, I miss who I used to be
Look, this isn’t about you
Look, this isn’t about me
Look, I know I’m A LOT
Look, I’m electric rainbow
Look, I like it like that
Look, okay, not always
Look past the noise
Look past your anger
Look how the river flows me into a dream or maybe it’s a memory or i saw it in a movie…of a little boy making a paper sailboat and placing the paper sailboat into the river and how the little boy let’s it go because he knows it’s not a toy for keeps he knows it’s a toy for everyone he knows the toy needs to follow the flow of the river and the river is being a river and I can’t know for certain but maybe the little boy knows he will never see the paper sailboat again and maybe he’s okay with that because he knows without knowing it’s how it’s meant to be
Look, if you want a life worth living
Look at everything
Look, I LOVE this! See what I did? I mean look what I did. But seriously, so good.
Such a beautiful poem. I hope you give a reading and/or videotape you reading it. I also love the mosaic/painting, with another totally unique facial expression -- the parade of expressions in your oeuvre keeps me fascinated!