Monday, July 12, 2010

BackWash



Roiled into suspension and then expelled with swirling energy
          Blended to a random grace by mixtures of unrelated forces

Shuffled together with cast-off hopes and spoiled dreams
          Spinning for a while with quaintly off-base notions

Left to try and comprehend the deepening aftermath
          Thrown off by the motion of the bleeding edge

No longer sharing the same up and down
          Evaporating slowly in the hazy contrail of progress

Accelerated briefly into a trailing vortex
          Quietly reclaimed by the good cosmic background

Swirled up with others by mere and simple chance
          Disappearing quickly behind the passing lights

Spun off by the force in an incomprehensible motion
          Settling on back into a dreamless entropy

Cast aside without malice or conscious intent
          Now drifting quite at ease among unrelated detritus

Displaced by our ungainly movement in this wondrous medium
          A small byproduct in the wake of our unfocused propulsion

Mixed fully with the exhaust of its incomplete combustion
          Falling behind with other wastes as they are expelled

frothing bubbles caught between the guidance of their wake
          unforeseen emergent effects from unconsidered acts

left bobbing in the chop as the chaotic center passes
           wisdom granted by random orientations to our space and time

mere collateral disturbance stirred by the small pressure of your passing
          dirty froth created by rapid progress towards unknowable goals

left behind to mix with other effluents and re-coalesce with the void

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