We’ve been left behind

Painted out of the background

Artificial leaves

Lean into the sun

Now the days and nights are one

New life has begun

When these dark mountains

Were covered in thick forest

This view was for birds

Your head’s in the clouds

Sometimes you have to descend

To reach the next peak

The buzzard’s shadow

Winking at the rising sun

A crooked disguise

When I reach the peak

I will search and seek, cloud lights

A path for my feet

Duck and dock and dive

Upturn and glide, sweep and slide

Flick and flock the skies

Care motivates change

Thoughts of change give birth to hope

Hope breeds frustration

What strange stories lie

Underneath these scattered stones

Splintered spires succumb

When light is broken

By a million raindrops

I’m standing on gold

Drifting West again

Drawn by rising Doppler tides

Towards shores unknown

My wheels are spinning

Going round in circles like

A headless chicken

Narcissus awake!

Lift your gaze from the smooth lake!

That neck’s gonna break!

Keeping our heads down

Won’t save us from the danger

Ignorance is death

I slip and I slide

Glaciers carry dead weight

This is my best shot

No matter how far

I have come, the next step seems

To feel like the first

When I’ve forgotten

Who I am and what I do

The warm sun breaks through

Like wings on a bird

Ideas only fly with words

That need to be heard

Relentless waves roll

Endlessly battering my

Stoney heart to dust

Sunlight leads us West

Every step reveals the next

Soak up golden glow

Each lens we look through

Reveals a different story

Splicing truth and doubt

Sweet stems surround us

With wandering white whispers

Can a mind be changed?