650: the world asks to be seen

noise always wears me down cars on asphalt mufflers cracking planes rising to new heights squirrels chittering at dogs barked chase humans the words held together by commonplace the grunts and hoots that pepper tones meant to be sly I grow weary here amongst it all...

649: the world wants to be seen

so it is that we have to fight in this world what do you struggle against can a hero walk without a limp a journey go on as though noble devastation I am better off I say a balm that holds no soothing but I say it all the same for something has to be said silence...

648: the world asks to be seen

do not trust the dragon only wants to play withdrawal moves closer to my heart than confrontation I keep it up though I long for a run this examined life gets too heavy and fighting monsters without arms futile loving we’re told will solve it all then love comes...

647: the world asks to be seen

we cannot live in hope without reckoning with loss and failure we hear it even know it but it means something altogether different to feel it I stand before the sunrise as if any other day but this the first upon which I stand alone I want to ask the day what it...

646: the world asks to be seen

it’s just a persona adopted when leadership is called for otherwise I’m as average as the next drink my coffee walk my dog worry over the state of the world and my children in it like the rest of us I am happy that some find something in what I offer...