Recognized Impact

When boulders fall

Kicking mountain sands

Crushing landslide vegetation.

Where does the impact 

Land when eyes are closed?

 

When man shocks with eccentric fervor

Leaking influence in rampant 

Fashion, the world reacts

With open crucifixion

 

Our society lives by reaction

When every soul in harmony

Upsets the moral 

Compass of time

 

What tells your neighbor

That the boulder stopped

Heavily upon your stooped

That simple winter morning

When the dark night

 

Buried its remains.

1996