Ego

Was just leaving a two hour stint of being all alone with my thoughts, when the answer to the question I hadn't yet articulated was answered.

Sometimes the vast landscape before me is hidden

Silently waiting for a tree to fall

does anybody hear?

I want to know if

you are willing to live

day by day with the consequence of love

and the sure and bitter defeat

of those things you hold close

as a stuffed dog held in your innocent grip

Decades of protection

silenced voice

Surpression of a violent tongue

The landscape is calling

Does anybody hear?

Destiny onced tamed by a civilized mind

Wells up from the dark, unseen

reality

I'm listening