Back in the biggest pile of straw, whistling and batting back flies as the summer seeks to steal 2nd from Spring. In champion flavor the boss writes a check with big numbers. And all who could not find reason showed for the gala, unwanted. Piercing highs and merciless drops in the charting the wind wrestled for supremacy with water. Snapping and diving the birds sought to chase freedom from pleasure. As passer’s bye watched the humpbacks and herons riding the waves of wind and sea.

Well thought and showered quickly raising to make it first to the dance. My footing a bit chancy, soft soled shoes singing the blues were just not sufficient this evening. In mercy and hope patience found the keys to the Buick. My two step haphazard I rendered decision to ballet the nonsense and measure. In rhythm and time adding years to the crime the bats were set free from their prison. In daylight, world’s run the risk of truth being shown to all who thought themselves prepared for the folly.

We pondered and longed for the things we never could have overlooking the blessing before us. Extremism. The twain of sanity called me back to the first footsteps, silence and willingness to surrender. Nothing is lost until something is gained. A man who thinks that he owns the world yet cannot define its circumference is 4/3 short of pi. Wondering alone down near the frozen river trying to dig up the coins buried an inch below ice. Scraping at memories that are best forgotten, the room somehow got a little smaller with each retelling.

Cannot find the reasons I had silenced your argument. Perhaps the will to listen had never been my mastery? For in the understanding, we are impressed to change, act and rectify our shortcomings in relationship. Days upon weeks turning to years I simply found no delight investigating the pain of each passing. Forgiveness is not simply for the things done in ill favor but for the things left unfinished or abandoned for reasons unwanted. There is no victory in fulfilling somebody’s wishes inconsistent with the expectations of purpose or those authorities residing outside the job description of the simple.