Tag: photography

How Far We’ve Yet to Go

In an old place
Beneath a brooding sky
Threatening clouds
Keep their promises

I reflect
On battlements
And palaces

And understand
We’ve come not so far

As we believe

Confined
I was
Until I remembered
My wings

Arms wide beckoning
All of being
Dark to light

Illumined texture
Shadowed depth

Through synthesis, form

So am I expressed
Unconfined

By black or white
No, I: all the subtle tones
Of possibility

There was a time
When walls made sense
Defending a perimeter
Patrolled and guarded
By men well-trained and armed
Against cavalry
Infantry and archers

Today
This wall is both beautiful
And a reminder of that time

Among the oppressed
Expressions of resistance
Become the everyday

The struggle continues
Outside the halls of learning
Where words are emblazoned
Even shouted in the square
Beyond the walls designed
To confine them

Oh, darling
Across these many miles

I have the touch of your words
On my heart
The touch of your voice
In my mind
The touch of your spirit
On my soul

But what I want
Is the touch of your hand
On my flesh

Come back to me, my love
I miss your presence
With all my being

Café por favor

The regular stop
In the deep of the night
Homeward bound

Warmed inside

Between
slaves
the one who
protects
the master is
the most
cowardly

I am but a blur
Passing through the periphery
Of this world of men

Until their eyes
Are trained on me
And I become a creature
Of penetrating interest

A creature
Which is not me
At all

Better the blur