"Takes you places"

in verse

Why Walk

why do you walk

I asked him bare faced

in a moment when we trekked 

on the rim of the world

while the sun shone and shone

blowing bright clouds like kisses

across ultramarine skies

that had no right to be so 

so blue

so intense that the laws of physics

failed to make sense of it

why do you walk I asked him

and he thought a moment

looking around 

just to be sure

it’s this

I walk because of this

all day at work

I fold myself behind a screen

juggle numbers

clockwork cogs of finance

pull strings of puppet-show simulacrums

of life

when we all know 

it’s just a story

that we tell people 

it’s a drug that we give them 

to make life seem real

when the only thing real

is this

this sky

these clouds

the mountain tops’ shimmer

the breeze

and the sweat in our eyes

to get here


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