2022 - 12/30 - The View

[skonen_blades]

The sky screams
Twisting clouds into fingers to make claw marks
Raking the world’s yard
Scouring the floor
Scrubbing it clean
And rinsing it
Making it break out in arks

The surprising thing about humanity
Is that intelligence is not commensurate with compassion
And that stupidity and cruelty are likewise unrelated

So I can’t tell you what the flaw was
Not exactly
My suit of armor made of pointing fingers
Is great protection, though
I mean I like to think of myself as a penitent man
A dip and a swoon
A skyscraper with good heels
I have a bookmark in my pocket
So I don’t forget my place
But I have a sneaking suspicion
That the call is coming from inside the house

All I know is that

Up here
(At the top of the waterfall
Just before the roaring lip
The longest
easiest
oldest journey)

Up here
(Even with the terrifying momentum
And the shameful memories of how avoidable it was
And how the oars do nothing in this current
And how it’s a long way down)

Up here
The view is great



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