Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Inspired by my Art Class reading

we're all just drowning
in this river of time
victims of time's shutter speed
cutting up our fleeting lives

we want the speed of modernity
but also to stay in a moment forever
we long to know the future
but love to hold pieces of the past
it's our hunger for eternity
that keeps us where we are

we all want to hold a piece of forever
these folds in the fabric of time


Monday, October 18, 2010

tightrope

we're walking such a tightrope
in our quest for the design
we be falling off the catwalk
for the fortyseventh time
there's a contrast in exposure
that our eyes can not discern
but we know we're drawing closer
when the forms become a blur
we see the face we long to love
the further ranging lord
the justice where we can't pretend
to have what we deserve
but it lets us in the kingdom
where we doubt our spotless clothes
and we're digging up the rags beneath
to show what orphans are
if we fully grasped these concepts 
we'd probably be dead
but we're feeling out the pathway
to that shaky light ahead.