Let us talk images
What do you see
Let your mind wander
Like beach scouring children
Picking up sparkly things
And declaring them treasure
Let your mind go
Don’t hold it back
Wander and wonder rifle
Through its nookish crannies
And discover trinkets only
That imagination will recognize
Be that child again
To know yourself is
To know God itself
For whatever you imagine
Can be by simply
Seeing it before it’s
Seen by others trust
That what you see
Is real and go
Find it or make
It so for those
There is complex
And there’s complicated
Complex has stairs
And cautious labyrinths
Treasure to discover
Complicated has secrets
And veiled deception
Disappointment to uncover
Complex is timeless
Second after second
Each ticking away
One more please
Complicated is timed
Hour upon hour
Playing the charade
Until it’s over
Give me complexity
Keep your complications
We talk about better
Better is a reference
A comparison to something
That is usually unsettling
But what if unsettling
Was the better thing
Things that make us
Pop things that make
Us change are better
Oh we love summer
But fall is when
Life really finally starts
We all enjoy frolicking
We only ever learn
From our skinned knees
I can’t seem to
Pull my wits together
Perhaps this is what
Dying may be like
Preparing for the end
A deluge of memories
Rushing down the canyons
Of my previous life
Lifting and pulling yanking
And clearing and cauterizing
Laying waste to wasted
Years
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 