may we all be heard
words are bells
let them ring!


Thom World Poet Austin, Texas, USA
Global Radical networker and activist for promoting the live Creative Arts,
at every possible opportunity, especially in his home-city, Austin, Texas, USA


Friday, July 16, 2010

I GO BACK

to when we first met
(and if i have changed
Well,i can change again
Chameleon/shapeshifter/organgrinding monkey
This circus has no memory
It glows town to town like reports of gunfire/we
are caught between that which we carry
and the promise of a better tomorrow
We know too much.We know little.We know nothing
Much has been made of survival(it is a song
These words were the last upon the lips of a forgotten man
In beds,resting,rusting,rotting-elders
awaiting the sweet kiss of visitors.You give them bliss
They remember this(temporarily
Tell me Zen-is it only what we remember will save us?
or is it an indefinite promise-
that we can make/create/recreate ourselves
in the image of what we wish
or will we simply turn over and say
"this is only another dream-
and it will pass away"

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