Here

I am at once invisible

And on the greatest stage

*

Calmly I walk across the wilderness

Tell me, what is all the rage?

*

Busy roads and fast cars

Folks dressed up to the nines

Sidewalks crowded

Everyone a star

We form an intricate design

*

In space that is invisible

Until we write upon the page

**

Our name and the date

To start is great

As we fade

Into our own private journal

A glimpse over the shoulder

May make us bolder

if the viewer approves

And we like being told so

Or looking back

A follower that’s bright

Like a satellite at night

When it’s safe

And not too cold here

**

Here

I am at once just physical

Walking on hallowed ground

*

Calmly I face spirits

Of all the years

Tell me, what is it that I have found?

*

Busy ghosts and shooting stars

Folks blessed

By crossing lines

Someone shouted

“We have got this far”

Then shares

An unfinished design

*

In space that is just physical

Until the mind becomes unbound

**

Our name and a date

To start is great

As we fade

Into our own private novel

A glimpse over the shoulder

As we grow older

if the viewer approves

And we like being sold more

Or looking back

A follower with light

That’s starts to ignite the fight

When it’s safe

To turn to gold here

**

“What’s the big rush?”

You wonder

Asking me

“Oh not much”

As you can clearly see

I just want us to be free

From too much suffering

*

Sometimes we manage

But sometimes

we are hanging by a thread

Sometimes we are left for dead

Because we don’t fit the mould

Too much is in our head

*

My heart has way more

Than most care to explore

I’ve often been told

I should focus

on the prize instead

Follow

both bold and subtle rules

Of insufferable fools

Who treat justice as uncool

Because it goes against

The junk that we’ve been fed

*

The world can change

With what we think

But then sometimes I start to sink

It seems like

they are often there to cut the thread

*

Fortunately we tie good knots

And can get stronger chains

To avoid the pain

Lifting us up to better spots

Where gears don’t get caught

And no one is left struggling in vain

*

Pull ourselves up together

Where mind and body don’t sever

And our soul is soothed

or positively excited by our brain

*

People see a mountain or a hill

Trees that are never quite still

The forest is a wall or a window

We write our visions in the rain

*

Life strives best

when we all gain in goals that are logical

healthy and sane

**

Here

I am at once invincible

With logic that can’t fail

*

Calmly I board the train at the station

Tell me

How do we shape the rails?

*

Busy routes with fast starts

Folks best to be on time

Strangers doubted

We can’t know that far

We seek a familiar design

*

In space that is invincible

Until we share the right details

**

Our name and date

To start is great

As we fade

Into our own private story

A glimpse over the shoulder

Our vision is told here

if the viewer approves

And we can be in the fold more

Or looking back

A follower in sight

With an appetite for heights

When it’s safe

To take a hold here

We start to have a soul here

***