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Long Trek

Rochelle Lynn Holt

How fragile and ephemeral is mortal
existence unlike Mother Nature
always shifting, turning to transform
earth, wind, water with fiery spirit
proves the invisible is visible.

To become the present of presence is goal
like a game of touch football or ping pong
until body swims alone in blue pool
or walks like a deer, wandering forest
with purpose, mostly spontaneous.

People, our shadow selves, come and go
like rain, but some are quakes fault reason
with relatives thorny as blood orange
while Mother/Father remain indelible ink,
offering secrets of maze in soul.

If we choose parents, what about siblings
tortured with inexplicable enmity:
openly jealous of those climb the ladder?
No doubt, we knew them too in a past life
as mother, father, husband, wife, son, daughter.

We return to this lifetime to learn lessons
forgotten, rejected as we evolved
which explains how far from pathos we are,
incapable of loving self in stranger,
strangely removed from nature of Nature.

Can we flutter and rise like blue butterflies
above the fire we mistake for flowers?
Will we stand sentry like crested heron
on the shore striped with dead fish
as we watch the horizon for dolphins?

We forgive enemies but don’t forget, allowing
us to accept illness, hostility and
eccentricity; but, what astonishes
is the circus like truth of fiction, irony, nightmares
and paradox amid black and white dreams.

Can that which was once treasured become trash?
Vice versa too on merry-go-round
thrills only children like a carnival
until we waken, wearing odd mask and costume
to relinquish for two-way mirror.

I see me in you; do you see me?
Reflection can be visible even if glass is cracked.
But, if we sleepwalk through the fog with eyes closed,
who knows what our dark sides will foment.
As for me, I know hummingbirds survive the long trek.

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