Let us be
Like the waves
Crashing, yet calming
Cresting and falling
Our volume unbounded
Almost unfathomable
Let us hear
Like the trees
Silent, yet whispering
Muted and listening
To the wind’s song
Singing sweet harmonies
Let us see
Like the child
Clearly, yet pliantly
With jest and with piety
After all, even the pope
Wears a funny hat
Gadgets, technology, doodads galore
Every buzz, click, whir, can be such a bore
Soon, each of us will be saturated
With wires, implants, nanobots, and circuits
Chemicals from faceless corporations
Surging through our bodies in a surfeit
Complete consumer assimilation
I sit envisioning this in the woods
My back propped up by the trunk of a tree
Pondering existence for ill or good
While sunlight kisses and envelopes me
Matrices nested in one another
Networks founded just to rediscover
Out of the blue
The wave of you
Washes over me
The memories of
Our bayou days
Those leading to we
I didn’t know
Myself back then, much less
Your true beauty
If I could turn back time
I wouldn’t
For you found the love you seek
I see a disconnect
Division
Void forming dissension
A tear in the fabric
Of the patchwork that’s existence
Black hole borne
Precision
Light penetrates the distance
Across the universal tunnels
Dug to teach the children
A trenchant misfit
Lifted
High above the syllabuses
Syllabi should you fly
Flags bright with condescension
Almost forgot to
Mention
The purpose for invention
Of life’s whole meaning
Being rebirth, regrowth, and redemption
KYLE SLEDGE 