Tuesday, April 03, 2007

continuing perplexity

The past catches up to the engine laying fallow
at its track, rusting the future obsolete
before even starting the long journey

up the hill and all our toys still collecting
the memories of childhood and the change
we all wanted; what we would become

and where we would have been at this time
back then if not for the seed carried
in us always seeking downward

holding us in place for want of a different
gene or spray of hormone at the beginning
when missed is never known and never wanted

but change and the chance to become more
than we are, to lift up and see the landscape
as if we were in another world, another time.

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