Snafus

by J. Otis Powell!

Something went wrong

The hourglass leaked sands

Of disasters re-mastered

Leaked cannons of obsolete protocol 

Into the vacuum air of regrets

Shifting truth drained

Into songs we wish we’d never heard

Of lost cheer 

Of our own undoing

We grieve what was dear

But must learn to let go

Time passes and we wonder

Who we were

And how we got here

In this un-grasped universe

Now we walk naked

Through unfamiliar halls

Searching for a looking glass

Longing for something that will

Hang aplomb between

Then and now

 

You’re the other side

Of us

Yin to my yang

Reverse image

Perverse osmosis

Seeking touch with

Intuitive wisdom

Passionately engaged

In kinetic karma

Photographs of you offer

Captured reflections

A mirror reflects

Differently every time

It’s asked a question

Media almost always lies

Because it’s truth is frozen

In whatever time made

It can’t reflect your mettle

As you dream it

Or echo a calling

You feel vibrating somewhere

Only eyes / ears and words

Only stories between us

Will heal

Our fractured confidence

Awaken unconscious music

My autobiography is beneath

Revelations you find lyrical

And profound

My muse lives inside

The woman in your reflection

 

We’re in the middle of it

Whatever this is

It’s all middle

No beginning

No end  

Only middle

When I look for sources of trepidation

And anxiety  

I find only middle

No starting over only starting

From here

Breathing occurs on it’s own

The body remembers everything

We want to forget

But the bloodstream incarnates  

What we know

How we know

And what went wrong