Do I write in the third person
or only in the first?
Do my ideas reign supreme
or do other ideas work as well?
Do I know I’m always right
or can someone else be right too?
Do I play solos only on my tuba
or do I play in the band as well?
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Dedicated to my nice Romanian friend Vasile
You are a goodness of the Universe
You have a right to be here
And eternal right
To be you.
Unique.
Reach search
scratch in the restless dark
find the small opening
make a go at a guess
embark on your journey.
A wise old man
guards the tomb
raising three questions
each time someone
nears.
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Where do you want to be?
Often, people answer
the first one quickly,
speed through the second,
linger on the third.
The answer is that
where we have been shapes
where we are going.
We choose to let our past
hold us back or lift us up.
This is sometimes even
more important in the
short term than where
we want to be.
Often where we want
to be is less relevant
than who we want to be.
Take
one second
look
see a whole
person
where only
a shell
was before
let a leviathan
surface
bubble with
smaller fish.
Notice how the king is entranced
By the noises of the jester
Though they are crude, he is in love
With the netherworld of life
Watching as his jester takes him
To the dingiest depths of depravity
Then scales onto heights of impropriety
When the time for bequeathing comes
The jester will walk away with jewels.
They tell me
to act normally, but I am
far from normal,
so far from what is
expected,
yet doing my own
dance in the shadow.