Residues

Residues

Wing beats

Breaching flukes

Vessels passing on the wave

No marks do they engrave

 

And, as for all

Who dare contrive

To fix immortal

Conceits a’fleeting

They too will pass

Like every known archive

Beyond its very reaching

 

For:

Crumbling Past hides

Wisdom and folly both

 

Full of promise

Future takes the knife

To the very edge

 

Only enigmatic present

Integrates the bounds

Of cause and time and space

 

So:

Strip away

Strip back

Through Maslow’s

Higher needs

Before the animal

Is revealed

Unconditional

 

Sieve out

Cant voyeurism

Contagious greed

Capsulating brutality

Vexatious clingings

Just enough

To expose

Raw

Humanity

 

Nobleness needs no monument to fall

Nor can history corrupt at all.

 

©JohnDaniels

I wrote this sitting in the car park of a mental hospital whist waiting for a visitor to return.