Missed opportunity

Missed opportunity
Or avoiding trouble
Panoramic chaos
Or small heap of rubble

Not the definition
Too far outside the word
Not broken English or
Some erroneous blurb

The World could be bigger

The World could be bigger
Mustn't view it as small
Faithful answers for some
Become questions, that's all

Theory versus practice
The list of shortcoming
With forgiveness the bridge
The fractions start summing

This Vivian Maier

This Vivian Maier
Moment or mere second
Time's relentless blooming
Without fruit or beckon

In harshness or beauty
Death in infinity
We are fiber not thread
Soles, not divinity

Where to find the courage

Where to find the courage
Experience gives strength
To go the great distance
And not the timid length

Somewhere in the stomach
Or anger in the heart
Repulsion or madness
Or backbone from the start

Somewhere outside the self

Somewhere outside the self
Not even within view
Somewhere in the ether
Past the silence of the blue

In the place where wishes
Of everyone arrive
In the collective Hope
Each one of them just thrive

Further out past safety

Further out past safety
Past the thicket, the woods
Into open space of
The should have, would have, coulds

And the further upward
Into vast open sky
Sensing truth of being
Without the question why

Surviving in sureness

Surviving in sureness

No risk, no penalty

The struggle of sameness

Repeating mentally

Exhausting the low fruit

Tired dreams not adapting

Lame day after lame day

Relentless bombasting