Perception Is Breaking Down - Try to Be!

A blithe and specious,
Ignominious journey,
Then an honored gaze is lured.
The frozen lake grows impartial
And passive;
She blips a little pale,
Drowns another libation
In max quantity,
Then stresses the cares
And courtesies
Of her obligation to rest,
And heads out -
Floating like a rowboat -
A balloon so filled with helium
Which towers above the earth -
Eager to be in her residence,
In a soft, caressing dream…

A case is being made
Most certainly,
One in which the scenes
Are effortlessly stolen
By a news reel from the sixties
And seventies.

One more reason to shy away
From the constant shouldering
Of rank expectations…

And the gift of consoling confidence,
That on-board actor
Of a gleam and surface,
Eye to eye with the beckoning beauty’s
Layered and intertwining heart…