Just Do It
No matter what the it
it often starts small, unannounced
undetected or unappreciated
It starts to grow or change in
some way, pushed or pulled by us
or self-induced
or dies or hides, sometimes to be
found, or not
There comes a time we
stop pushing or pulling and
embrace it, or fight it, or try
to ignore it
or someone else does
with or without us
and this is how it becomes
that life we lived, or not
Warning
Without warning
Futures emerge
Unbidden
Yet triggered
By agents unaware of
Havoc unleashed
Order imposed
Potential spawned
Opportunity missed
Fact misconstrued or simply ignored
Expediency coddled
Curiosity mistrusted
Doubt ignored
Insight darkened by lack of faith
That the future is created.
Or, thinking they are the authors
Of their destinies,
Destined to blunder through time
Minds and hearts
Numbed by fear
Blinded by hate
Lost to loneliness
Blunted by addiction
Overwhelmed by the power of those
Who mistrust the other
Certainty substituted for doubt
Surrendering self
Subsumed by tribal consciousness
Future predestined
Hope traded for
Promised security.
Enter the dreamer
Unencumbered by hopelessness
Still subject to fear
Intrigued by history’s lessons to learn
Seduced by possibility’s siren songs
Replete with redemption
Tangled with promise
Too good to be true
Too true to abandon
Grounded in the real
Nurtured by the imagined
Whispering hope while being shouted down
Then screaming truth to power
Spurred by doubts unleashed
All the while adding insult to injury
Hurling intolerance at the intolerant
The timid beware
As the meek inherit the mess
Firing a warning shot across the bow;
Damn the future,
Full speed ahead!
Life Dunes
grass and sand buffer sea from land
unless, until neglect or storm breach or strangle
years mass between past and new
offering memories a time to die or flourish
silence gathers after thoughtlessness
numbing pain, inviting notice
commonplace cushions the new
comforts the unforeseen