A simple word or two and all the pieces fall in place
A simple word or two and everything is clear
for a moment, a whisper.
Everything seems possible
And it is
for a moment and a whisper
which doesn’t last forever
but in that moment
everything is clear
the horizon seems just a bit
shinier
And this so called
Real life
The spoken threat of
a thousand “adults”
Sets itself in
and a
moment
a
whisper
isn’t
just isn’t
all we need
if only we could add
then all up into
one prolonged moment
Using those lessons
our elementary teachers beg us
to use
the ones our grandfather’s whispered
in dying baited breaths
pleaded with us to heart
the ones that those who felt too soon
to death’s sweet kiss
shout out to us
in our Real lives.
It wouldn’t be so much a burden
a threat to future generations