Earthbound

Earthbound

A slave to gravity

Everything weighted

Predicated on the finesse

Of balance

Tip it and see me fly

Float on a thermal

Commune with an eagle

Fly on a murmur

Whispered by starlings

A silence of acrobats

It is a wearisome

Presence

An ache of goodbye

A drain of lifeblood

Forever charged

With carrying

All hope

Through an eternal fire

It boils with the indignity

Of damnation

For no good reason

Other than it

Is of this earth and every

Known substantive mass

A prisoner

Without conscience

Every single grain

In a sandstorm

The irritant in the

Corner of the mind’s eye

A washed out reminder

In a fresh flow

Of salted tears

Falling as all things do

Into an abyss

Of unbroken laws

Endless waves

Un-mellowed by time

Caught up

In virtual equilibrium

Gravitational draw strings

Binding all things together

In difference

Interrelated and

Intricately connected

In a dance of mutual

Inclusivity

Extemporise

Improvise with little effect

There is a sweetness

In perfection

It is an apple

Ripe enough to eat

Watch it fall

As it most surely will

It was ever thus

And will be still.