Once, a splendid place—
faith cradled in mystery,
risks rarely taken,
danger in every glance.
With wordless clarity, we wove our strands,
each loop taut, each flaw locked in.
Heroes with fractured edges,
grasping at impulses that slipped away.
Double tragedies stacked high like stones,
the burn of a radical spark.
One particle, one lone idea
fixed in place, dim and still.
Stunning ignorance, so softly cloaked—
yet habit becomes transcendence,
we, stoned sapiens, reaching beyond
toward something worthy of the climb.
Invisible threads that bind then fray,
we follow paths unseen but somehow known,
fists grasping at phantom truths,
loose threads trailing from tattered cuffs.
Each wound, a lesson stitched too tight;
each triumph, a loosening seam—
as we lean into our shifting dawns,
chasing shadows in stubborn daylight.
Enraptured by echoes of first light,
we spiral upward, tracing paths
of ancestors could only dream of as they
gazed in reverence at the stars, then down at dust.
~Eric Vance Walton~
Be well and make the most of this day.
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Poetry should move us, it should change us, it should glitch our brains, shift our moods to another frequency. Poetry should evoke feelings of melancholy, whimsy, it should remind us what it feels like to be in love, or cause us to think about something in a completely different way. I view poetry, and all art really, as a temporary and fragile bridge between our world and a more pure and refined one. This is a world we could bring into creation if enough of us believed in it. This book is ephemera, destined to end up forgotten, lingering on some dusty shelf or tucked away in a dark attic. Yet the words, they will live on in memory. I hope these words become a part of you, bubble up into your memory when you least expect them to and make you feel a little more alive.
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