Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Like Riding a Bike

The Marine Layer

The revolutions that manifest days, weeks, months and years

Birthdays, anniversaries, and obligation

Turn within the marine layer

An early morning without purpose

Beneath a gray blanket

Cool, dull, breezy restlessness

Above, burning off the chatter,

Seeking clarity and reflection in waves

The sun illuminates

the thoughts that run on tape

Space exists for meaning,

For directed energy

For observation of the rhythm of the ocean

The melodic chirping of waking birds

The senses that confirm aliveness

Signs that complacency is a choice

And that isolation is complicity

Perspective below the gray vacuum

cannot determine one second or millimeter of this opportunity

Rising above is a matter of gravity.

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