The Revelers
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Revelers
A tilt of the head
and there's a universe
never seen before in time and space,
and passing strange—it's boiling hot,
contemptuous in its familiarity,
for though the slate is new,
it mocks the mind and speaks
of high adventure, Mondrian upon the wall,
the queen of age enlightening...
that fresh page, a ship at anchor,
tugging at the post to sail
before the morning's past.
Do you feel it?
Can you breathe the air
Arcturus saw when you were born,
and passes on afresh— stirred anew
this time around with one
forgotten eyelash?
And, do the changes
thunder in your heart?
We are the revelers,
the chasers of the dawn,
who from our beds may joyfully
engage Leviathan, or rage
upon black flowers of the night
that dare to cast their shadow
on the day.
~
Copyright © Robert Ludden | Year Posted 2012
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