A Circle of Fifths Defined

A Circle of Fifths Defined

I am lyrics. Composed and syllabic, metaphors abounding

You are music. Complex and transient, movement innate

Fluttering on the whim of every chord

Dipping like a kingfisher into the waters

Of my words in swoops of seething energy

Insulated from the grips of these waters

Blazing for the energy of the unanswered potential that swirls

Around your body like breaking liquid slip steams

Like a sea lioness darting for exploration

Surrounded by sharks and would be Russian mine fields of pointed resistance

Yet shrouded, unaware, yet aware discounting the impact

Of considering ramifications like ankle weights

To the choreography in which you in motion exist

Flit with disaster and endless possibilities

Including the ecstasy of knowing a happiness worth waiting for

And the endurance of entertaining the pain of the destructive force

Around every corner like an armored transport with the dexterity of a humming bird

You move and I ponder in awe given my lack of adroit mechanisms

Capable of replicating your behavior, these loquacious logistics

Like parameters of the considerations that legislate how I exist

Constantly peppering the dotting of the i’s in my memories

Singular and stationary ashamed and inflamed in the glory of home

In me, in knowing me and introspective monopoly
I own them all, the doors, the floors the walls

This house of cinder block and bolted skeleton key locks

Bones and shown right out these roles

Fervent and stoic, rowing and hoed it

You are flying and I am standing, in these places we turn commanding

Presence in our understanding of who we are

This pestilence, this life, the cracks to see the similarities despite

Of who we could be together, of who we are apart

The lines of what must with the music played in these hearts

A spoken word without backing, a beat and a measure without voice

Raise in the other and find a father and a mother

In the arms of these sounds, vagabond children come home