Poem: Back Alive

 

Back Alive

 

what could be more awesome

or maybe no?

it depended on the whys

of the great perspectives;

on a scale of mythic hows

and forces unseen yet sought;

and which god bent 

which river.

 

to praise

and yet also curse the answerless birth-questions;

to float to the top of their beautiful waves,

and look down at things,

the push and pull of sting and hunger

in the crash of their infinite joy--

that was the answer.

 

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6/29/24 mods

6/12/22 ... "sting and hunger" replaces "hunger and sting"

7/10/22 ... broke last stanza in to two stanzas... added a word in between ("remember")