ONE DAY YOU WILL KNOW

Even if no exchange happens and isolation

Of our souls remain in tact

One day you’ll know

This letter will burn your eyes to slivers

Years in advance you have scheduled your desires

Following the etchings and sketches of your brain

Maps, closely watched trains

One day, one unscheduled stop, a moment of evil clarity

Will bring you back the knowledge of today, of now

Your prey is easily caught in the net of class

Charm, laughter, laps of fun, dead fish netting this eve

This catch, might you admit a slight remorse, not by any chance

And clearly state to the winds listening – my heart was taken

As a fable attempt to clear the path you made

Unable to return, you are frozen still

One moment will melt the debris surrounding the wall

The ways of the world are as clear as a summer day in the Basque country

Water and earth, mud comes undone sliding
And sticking to the keyhole and your fingers

Again and again you try to fit the key into the hole
Slide after slide, try after try

Cannot, it will not cave to your will

To your whim, not at this time

How effortlessly you discard, disarm, and ignore

Your own, theirs and everyone’s dreams

For when you are old and bitter, comfortably swaying in your wrinkles
Sif* in a lovely wooden garden swing

This only weighs in when you are cold

Whether above or in the ground

One day you shall be of the know, of the now.

12.13.2010