Sestina
Life is a one world wonder
When looking, your life
is a complicated pathway to nowhere
that crumbles like a piece of paper.
You stand back and look
at how it falls down in one big “whoosh.”
Its falling like Ground Zero
You’re life is a bigger one world wonder
Looking back you stare at it
but looking at your life becomes difficult.
It keeps crumbling but slowly now
to another pathway that’s brighter
The pathway glows with light
Upon the cracks and crumbles of life
that crumble like some dried paint,
down life as the one world wonder.
Looking back at you from blind eyes
You stare at it like in a staring contest
The staring contest never ends
Which becomes another pathway in life,
that you look at but doesn’t crumble
that doesn’t create the big “whoosh.”
This life brightens before your eyes
and does not crumble like the twin towers.
The crumbles rewind themselves
As you look upon them with glee.
Life no longer is a one world wonder dying
slower each time. But a brighter pathway
to someplace. It builds itself piece by piece
shining like a star. It no longer looks at you but urges you to go on.
Instead you look up at a different life
It does not crumble when you gaze upon it
There is no “whoosh” only silence.
You draw closer and closer until you are nose to nose
It no longer is a complicated pathway going nowhere
It no longer is a one world wonder
As it builds, you keep walking closer.
You look and look at it put itself together
and as it fixes itself, it becomes something better
