Lemmings
En mass, a colossal fedora
covering entire islands
lunar eclipses
Move in constant rhyme
Pebbles the size of mighty thunderheads
And rivers with caps will not hold you back
Just a matter of time
swarm the meadows and the forests
leave clues but insufficient for the sleuth
invincible, not corrupt but not holy,
but why?
counter the swells
conquer the precipice
for the journey is inimitably divine
leap and bound
not hungry
unfeeling
unseeing
unmovable
untouchable
mortal
not corrupt but not holy,
but why?
get there
you will
like millions of flying squirrels
dancing on clouds
surmount
the highest of cliffs in the lightest of air
leap
to the next stone
fall and drift, tumble and glide
scurry in mid flight
oh your bellies must buckle
Oh why bounce your essence
off the rocks of the sea
bodies no more to be?
not corrupt but not holy,
but why?
Copyright © Alan Reed | Year Posted 2010
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