In this world of subtract

In this world of subtract

Where chaos multiplies

Judgments without jury

The self is compromised 

A greater universe

Outside of this planet

Turn into stone so they

Will take you for granite

What does it matter now

What does it matter now

After the bubble burst

We are falling through clouds

Does it matter who’s first

In a pile of puddle

I am separating drops

I struggle to survive

By becoming sundrops

Futures out of favor

Futures out of favor

Falling to the wayside

Foggy out of focus

Avenues to decide

Personal perspective

Choices chasing the brain

But oh to have choices

Unlike battled Ukraine

All bound to brevity

All bound to brevity

Granular to hillsides

Smaller divided dust

Under umbrella skies

Smiles beaming and wider

Than internal wonder

Marvel in the moments

Lightning flash or thunder 

Sending a beginning

Sending a beginning 

First on paper airplanes

Folded notes then letters

And then all out campaigns

Next the paperback books

Followed by hardcovers

But first, a beginning

The cusp of discovers

We have travelled this far

We have travelled this far

Walnut shell and wide plain

Sparks and constellations

Freedom of I and stain

Seeing a near future

Inseparable past

Each of us going first

And neither of us last

Too quick and too allow

Too quick and too allow

With a consumer’s nod

Like hand cupping water

Or the vast earth we trod

Extinction grows silent

It crawls as we sprawl ‘til

One last mating call calls

Unanswered and then nil