aware of the ground

by doreen peri

Posted to Action Poetry on 2003-02-01 17:11:00

Parent message is 373542
mama is sitting home crying, baby,
she saw the newscast and i’m way
way past wondering, way past
wondering; you aren’t coming
home you aren’t coming home
you aren’t you aren’t


we sent you up, out, shouted your glory, help
write your story, played science fiction
into real, no way to shield you from
dreams – no way to shield you from
extreme distance, insistant pull of gravity –

you, the focused miracle seeker
wanting to reach heights, night studies,
rigid exercises, muscle and aptitude,
aptitude and preparation, preparation
for the elation of vision, perseverance
and virtue, your character stood
true through, pride appropriate
for a ride to everywhere.

Love is a dare and a danger,
a strange rearranger of history,
mysterious is passionate fate.
never too late
never too late, never
too late, the lift off.

prayers and hope
hope and prayers
dares possessed
by must, this, the lust
of flying to and for,
for and to, aware
of the ground.

mama is sitting home crying, baby,
she saw the newscast and i’m way
way past wondering, way past
wondering; you aren’t coming
home you aren’t coming home
you aren’t you aren’t



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