Your guess as good as mine

Your guess as good as mine

Let us walk side by side 

The leaves are all changing

Evergreens hold their tide

Without a truncation 

Not keeping reservoirs 

Our thoughts in the moonlight

Are taking us past stars

I cannot carry these

I cannot carry these

Dreams heavier than hope

Up insurmountable 

Beyond the dawn wall slope

Yet what am I if I

Abandoned these ideals

Mustard seeds are mountains 

Not just zeniths but feels

Elephants in the room

Elephants in the room

Above like counting sheep

Too massive and weighty

I couldn’t fall asleep 

Body locked and fearful 

Asking for it to stop

Childhood years questioning 

How come they did not drop

Pinned to a clothesline while

Pinned to a clothesline while

Pigeons circle through space

A wave leaving ocean

But tugged back into place

Unhappiness takes us

To uproot or repeat

To redwood or bonsai

Home is in our two feet

Twilight melancholy

Twilight melancholy 

Did the clouds stop moving 

The verbs becoming nouns

Only us refusing

Everything now postcards

That never reach the mail

Lullaby overwhelm

An abandoned sand pail

Incomplete yet proper

Incomplete yet proper

A barn without a roof

At the crossroads of Not

Abandonment is proof

Not threading or knotting

The fish slips from the hook

Everything was given

But not more than was took

Sunlight is not witness

Sunlight is not witness

Nor shadows at our feet

The wind cannot carry

The wishes we repeat

The past is not waiting 

Behind us on the street

The future is just an

Unknown we have to meet