Poem: Back Alive

 

Back Alive

 

what could be more awesome,

or maybe no?

it depended on the whys

of great perspectives,

on a scale of hows,

unseen yet sought,

and which god chose

which river.

 

it was important to praise

and yet also curse;

to fuse the answerless birth-questions.

remember, 

it is predestined:

to reach the top of a beautiful wave,

and look down at things,

the push and pull of sting and hunger

in the crash of infinite joy.

 

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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")