Perpetuity
4.8.16

I saw them Lord.
Eyes glazed, a vision of perpetuity
Hands folded, steps slowed
A procession with no eventuality
No dust, no patterns left for infinity.

Bodies moved with hardly a breath
Winds caught between pages bred
The missal whispers
All the living to be had.

I don’t pity them
For this slowed down sublimity.
I don’t admire them
For the loss of ubiquity
I don’t much like
The dying remnants of nature’s dignity
Hardened bones, hardened maneuvering
Of oneself’s perplexity.

I don’t much like the puffy eyes,
Puffy faces and bodies
Weighted down in solemnity
Swollen with thoughts
Of ambiguity.

But the thousands
Of days and desires
People, sunsets
Locked inside their eyes
Gilded with a touch of gold
Streaming for me to behold
I rejoice.

And as I lifted my arms to the heavens above
A gentle tug, a touch for my spirit to uphold
Of the vision
A procession locked in perpetuity
A never ending eventuality.

I saw them Lord