Dear Brother
Ive known you since you were 6
And i was 7.
I was your first neighbor. You were my first friend.
Having you in my life
is the way it’s always been.
Last Couple of years
Not the same without you here
with me, like it always was,
how i long for that again,
my dear brother.
My long lost friend.
Nebulous
What you expect
When you get no respect
I smile to your face
But I said what I said
I maintain my position
Follow through with intent
Cut em off at the base
yup
These bitches is spent
Call it a mishap
Opinion or fact,
I spin everything
To make it land in my lap
Even what you started with
I’ll be taking that
And show it to be a little value
When I freely give it back
Parables
The wind
the rain
the sun
Are my teachers.
I walk among the ageless cedar
Observing the way of the beaver.
The galaxies and stars
Are my fathers’ map
guided by along
The less traveled, seldom trodden
Path.
I discern an ancient tale of woes spoken in the cryptic caws of crows
Who witness a world of
Ever change
Never less
the same
The grasping
Nevermore
to gain
Rising, collapsing.
The dawn of days
first born Hills rejoicing
Mountains leaping toward the sky
Came the vain pursuit of man
To find his means to satisfy
His bulging and corrupted-
Covetous eye.
I’ve seen the tower, babel
Thrust toward heaven high
Collapse
Returning to a mound of futile efforts dashed
laden beneath Millennias
of strata
and ash.