RHYME Poem: Rocky Road to Reality, by h.c. kowal

Lessons that result in questions
level out to heaven’s
sake, just what does it take,
the words, they don’t break me
but absence, it slays
the strings left unplayed
our bed is not made,
there’s no serenading
the statues,

but I’ll ask you
is it possible
we’re only audible
to those that matter?

Dwell on the lost—
a step down the ladder

pop the champagne, just us
& watch it splatter
celebrate the way
the world, it flatters
you & I,
connection is true
so find the message in views
take the best from the news
trials to light the fuse
that way we’re different
from all the days we could have curled up in it
through all the pain, it pays to keep on living
that way we’re giving
back to the people who can hear,
those that harvest when we’re near,
share the fruit & share their fears
join in courage and in tears,
& through the years
they are all ears

yes, I’m proud to be in this existence
& to have found holy with your assistance,
so I’m passionate, in love, & our persistence
lifts us past the days where no one listens
the whole world glistens,

this is
the path
to fruition.