On The Theory Of Relativity
Robert Michael O'Hearn
Its exclusively in your mind
the lonesome crying of the loons
the split cracking of infantry fire
the gentle prattling of a creek
But recall, there's also
hidden agendas, the side effects
that aren't always part&parcel
of imagination running overtime
For instance, there's factors:
The enemy, the great unknown
unfavorable to you, more than unknown
and others who've known them all,
the aftershocks unaccounted for
the relativity of time to a bee
the fate of fecal matter flushed,
all irrationality unexplained
But recall, there's this:
Its exclusively in your mind
the crying of taps from the bugle
the crackling of fire in pine trees
the puttering of an outboard motor
escaping out into a mindless ocean.
