#282 - we're here to

 

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we’re here to…

(teleology [boys’ own])

 

make up worlds

unword this one

 

here to cloud

 

knock the planets off their courses

circulate a sun

 

mock system

make up lie to bed

be rude, occlude

 

we fashion windows doors

to show so seldom open

 

ever brinking storm with fire

and call ourselves the hope

 

here to play

not put the toys away

never to resile

 

but find an end in things themselves

 

go gently in the elsewhere yet

to be legend

in the bones

 

carry the chaos on

and easy over

 

though we must not observe

 

here for a spin and dizzy

tell secrets

keep them from ourselves

 

to offer and to be refused

to honey moon

see stars

 

a good time

do the darkening

like that

populate and perish

the wisdom of the young

to populate and perish

 

lie fallow

in mere wonder

 

to plot and foil

cook things up

and eat them raw

with bile and guile and spite

 

we’re here to lend an ear

 

call rain

and rest ye merry

 

if in light

cast shadow

 

name the hunches

and carry off spoils

 

be spirited

 

to tell the devil

and shame the truth

 

make it all up as we go

 

to raise a sweat

and pulse and polish

(careful how to turn)

 

here for the doling out

brink wisdom

 

mend and patch

purse lips

sip

be cast into the chorus

catch flame, fly

and much admired

 

tree seed each equally meant

 

come closer real

come closer

feed from my open hand

 

we’re here

 

to read and to be written

never to find out how things are purposed

 

to guess a way and go

 

to blink and know we’re gone