frail

superficiality as onion skin deep

as in the gap ’tween a gnat’s eyelashes

human flesh paper thin vaporized dreams of pride 

as strong as an iron pad lock on a cardboard fence

anger misdirected internal disequilibrium

mental flow conundrum

superficiality like broken promises

carried on yesterday’s winds it is me until

i see your face across shining seas’ sailings

it will take long stretches of struggle to cross

deserts, canyons ’n jagged rocks

along the way assaulted by emotions’ robbers

“you are not of this world yet i have placed you in it

the good along with the evil

i have found you a place, for you in the wilderness”

so it is, i see your face across a shining sea

atop high elevated bluffs rising like Masada

a fortress agin the builders of pyramids’ eye

superficiality as thin as the rants of scoffers

human flesh, paper thin vaporized dreams of pride

as strong as an iron pad lock on a cardboard fence

intelligence as high as the mountains of the Himalayas

contained within babes’ innocence acceptance of truth

expanse of reality so wide so infinitely far

as the glorious, unknown, unscaled universe