Today happens to me
The singing birds, blasts about here, twinkling trinkets and a twenty storey tall thing
More things to fling aside, files to flush down procastination’s swift sweet sink
Seductively thrashing priced pieces, fixing feet simply as crossed
Arms akimbo, loosened collars and buckles, bland collection of framed truce
Activity trounced, ability bounced out of life’s arena
Staying the day’s nagging throb, curling to turn up undone
By time catching you napping

Race to the line, dazed, crazed frantic cry and shabby shifts
To make up for gone time, ignoring existential web’s continuous reconstructions
As once valid connections evaporate into picture-captured past
As lines of a story turn with the pages of a metamorphosing being
And the bus leaves behind late folks, sobbing and wailing and spitting and cursing

Deadlines
Set, written, rattling, scramble stirring
Dead lines
Hearts set on nothing but now-mores, mere norms, immediate loves
Temporal joys
For such fleeting trims of fate-doomed creatures, careless misfortune excitedly devours
Hope beyond here and now fires up a life to press past the deadline
To meet it before it comes, to take it captive, to liberate the task from time’s chains
Into purpose permeating every fibre, stretching into forever.

You sip tea
I gaze at stars
You talk Gucci and Versache
I dream of elliptical galaxies
You wonder about the broken CD plates
While I contemplate purpose and the universe
You’re bored with video games
I’m lost in the nothingness of a black hole

That dish is delicious!
And thundering waterfalls inspire awe
That bush track’s filled with soldier ants!
What if  asteroids destroy our planet?
Mary says she’s in love
What is the meaning of life?
And here, we converge

We’re worlds apart
In one world
You’re all over the place, and minding them all
I’m all tucked into mental space, minding it all
We’re looking for it
In different ways

If you race away, slow down to reflect
If you’re stasis-afflicted, dare to take the believing leap
If you are scattered between these, thoughtfully gird your loins
Then fly
Believe, then proceed
Receive, and live, as God’s spirit leads
Striving questions may weaken, may drive to hysterically empty preoccupations
The eternal answer is enough
To calm a raging sea, a stormy soul.