I wake
with my jaw shaking
every nerve
on fire
quaking
sometimes it’s cold
sometimes it’s not
sometimes it’s a cold
that maybe
I forgot
I grab wood
a belt across the knees
rise slowly
like an animal
emerging
from a freeze
it’s always too bright
the sun
unrelenting
what should spark joy
awakens
a great lamenting
I pour some coffee
ignoring the hand
that won’t close
roll outside
with the squirrels
have myself
a smoke
quickly
I take notice
of the symmetry
of things
a bird as it sings
and the duality
of feathered wings
sometimes
it’s a cage
an imprisonment
of rage
other times
peace
and my fortitude
will increase
time keeps on ticking
ticking
ticking
into the distance
but one day
the clock
will tick
its last tock
soon
I will be free from this
and in some infinite space
once again
I will walk
arms spread wide
waiting
to embrace me
to take me beyond
this station
into the cradle
of eternity
what will I see
in the time
beyond time
will there be rhythm
in the unbounded
rhyme
or is rhythm
a function
free from malfunction
rhythm is a lock step
a meter
we tend to forget
once the weight
has been lifted
and the burden
has been shifted
no longer unitary
in parade formation
no longer
a cadence
of intimidation
but the stars
are mostly jazz
celestial
razzmatazz
Django Reinhardt
unchained
guitar strings
pressed
and twanged
played beneath trees
where men
were once hanged
meaning
is not syncopated
life is not a cage
to which
we are fated
when I open my eyes
and the sunshine
invades
I see the beauty
in all of this
and wonder
pervades
shaky days
will indeed
reach their conclusion
but the prison
of the body
is just another
illusion
and the mind dances
like a nomad
in firelight
and in the dance
is the resistance
of plight
I am bound here
that much is true
but one day
I will enter
the great
widening blue
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