| "Why do people stop breathing?" - Pancho Alvarez
Do they? And if they do, perhaps it's simply because they can't
anymore, the way the horizon draws
a sentence from a pair of lungs, beyond
or some other last word. The answer
lies in color, blue and the vast
resignation of a sky aware of how small
everything else is, how fleeting. Or gray,
ash and the natural spiral of dust
stalling on its journey to ground. What
I mean to say is, half of your heart
is already pulsing with the wild
rhythm of knowing. The other half
is the largest window you've ever seen.
What you mean to say is, Why do people die? Imagine that window, now,
the stone-constant horizon, the beyond where fragments of breath, colorless,
turn into ice then water
then back again to breath. People
don't stop breathing.
We do.
Labels: poetry |
*thunder clap*
lupet. :)
-martin v.