boston view

thought-prayers

violating insight 

downward eyes

unfocused pain

blurred vision 

detached retina

delinked perception 

humanity invisible

no clear plan

in sight

remain

we are the remnants

of our upbringing

of our childhood

of our home town

the bicycle we coasted to freedom

the playground we sandboxed to discovery

all the pleasure pathways

frozen in the mind

unmelted by time

or by wasted years

or by grown-up tears

those red-blooded days

of forever innocence

even as physical changes come

and warp and rebound and deface

even as mental changes come

and warp and rebound and debase

those nuggets of beauty

the captured fragments

remain