Kit Kelen #1195 - navigating the dark

1195

navigating the dark

submergence

I call it

black armband view

a fundamental shift in the fabric

do you know this world?

how it will be?

how it can have come about?

has sunshine too

and rises where we’re sunk

subtle shifts you might not notice

in light, in the passage of time

no amount of attention would tell

the radio suggests

I too am progressing to nothing

give to you the secret

today in socks

and notice

water still runs downhill

it wakes you

like the moment of the face presented

something lit

now from the past

I know we will accept all this

uncannily alike

sunshine and trees still stood

not even a breath in the leaves today

always easy to understate

to over read

bees loud in the garden of the sun

you feel in the dark

not wishing to wake

anyone otherwise

everyday objects are something else now

other shapes to the touch they are

do you recognize

world of the home still standing

as if not a soul were required?

like lost at the Easter show

and a voice comes over the air

says this is how it is from now

your mother – all mother – is gone

but the callous rest won’t even know

get on with the maze to tread

it’s as if they never heard

always easy to understate

to over read

turn it all into words

and it’s gone