Kit Kelen #1259 - herded

1259

herded

if everywhere was where we wanted when

then I’d be sound asleep

across the wishful waves all wink

the gone, to come, their heaven had

a confidence we all could keep

and would and will

and there’s the iron in belief

but, as it happens

here I am

(that must mean in real time)

as far as you are reading

though you’d say further

I would too

(everyone exaggerates)

so we’re made most of

it is creaturely to

come, can’t you

into this crook of me?

sneeze

and someone’s cracked the whip

then all abroad

the captain says

call that industry

where everything is harder

and sometimes

find a self at home

it’s where you wonder who