How To Ride a Bike

I read that book
When I was way to young
To understand
Its intricacies
The utter 
Humanness
Of the plot
The re-read
Left me
In a state of
Panic'an 
Bileness
Shreds my emotions
Like your mouth is
Just before 
Being sick
The helplessness
As the two
Plea for help
From each other
As madness
Slowly encroaches
As they cannot
Make head nor tail 
Of life
And what 
It doesn’t offer

The missing piece
Was just them
On my book shelf
All this time
It
Just there
Made a thousand
Curtains fall
And I
Just sat
On the floor
In awe
Of what stood beyond
Those curtain falls

Funny
It was telling me
Something was coming
A couple of weeks 
Of intense signs
Except the last one
Before
The falls
I hadn’t
Seen that before
Yet I
Have lived it
I have spoken it
I experienced it
In three years’, time

This insight
To life
Leaves me
Felling flat
As I totally
Understand
The full humanism
Of our situation
And why
It all occurs

I stand 
Atop a cliff
Above
The total madness
It
Holds my hand
And speaks
‘You discovered how to walk
Its time
To teach you
How to ride a bike’
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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