Move

Move

Hop skip shove push
Jump run dive in to hoops
Race trace each tortuous maze
Amble if lame  but move always

Been a while stuck in the groove
The road restive to feel heated hooves
Make the motion take the trip
Get off the carousel leap over the tip

See yonder sun that daily dips
In bloody trail through hungry lips
Of rapacious skies into what lies beyond
And your staid home the earth
Moves madly, round and round

And every degree tilts through time
The road shimmering, shifts its paradigm
The path changes the journey derails
Convoluted curves and endlessly
loops this living tale.

We missed the boat but we can't stay
on at the port
Shipwrecked we swim still forward to receding shores
The waters catch up crawling serpentine over our necks
Goodnight sweet dreaming life on safety's starry deck
In the waves move memories maddening light
where moon and stars congeal in delight
And White Atlantis awaits
Or mortal fate
Movement is Life impetuous
Life that dances brave and calm
Into death's embrace.

(c) Amrita Valan 2016