Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Go Not Quietly (new poem)


Go Not Quietly (new poem)

by Tim Kavi

We do not go quietly

into the night

but like bulls in a china shop


there is a great noise

destruction seems predominant

but do not mistake


loudness for anger

for lack of love

or even destructiveness


there are other things

to consider

on the eve of destruction


knowing that gentility

gets little notice

in the many noises of the world


must I speak softly

to get you to wake up

when the fire is burning?


sleeping souls

who says my message

is worthy to wake up to?


I speak the truth

turn to each other

embrace love and change


there is only the upward

striving on a ladder

of existence, to the path


where all sentient

beings make haste

bring it to the next rung


step up. step up

yet the destroying erases

applied like salve


to the wounded

the lost

yea, even the dying


of what is

and shall be

in the becoming


of who you are

called to become

step up step up


into the who

you are called

to become


confident

assurances waxed bold

in the face of tomorrow


fictional juxtapositions

encounter the real, lived out

of existence


your warrior stories

are waiting to be told.