Love Your Starfish

I Mother Earth

To hesitate, to reel and stutter

In a free fall

To eat your grapes and slow the runner

You just need calm



Don't let me

Down

I'm already

Down



Like a rubber band pulled

Between two hands in a slow

Defiance of when it might break

Then someone laughs, all left feet

And charging rhinos... unfunny

But I know

No one here needs

Your kind of redemption



You came in waves and tired

Of all this celebration

You milked the tree, fed the starfish and said

All is calm



You must get

Down

I'm already

Down



With the whole event

Held within your head like

Old valentines, just when do you

Start to fake a love

For jazz and blue green oranges...

It's so Hieronymus I know

No one here needs

Your kind of redemption



How shallow ponds with the growth

Of decades carry on

I'll never know



On the whole, I can dig

The world's offerings

And with the yes parade on hold

It did not lessen me when it

Was said to me with the elegance

Of daybreak that wherever you go

You take your pride,

Wherever you go, there you are

That was the birthplace of almost

Everything bold, poetic and stoned...