words

when life gives you lemonade
reverse engineer into citric elements,
corrosive, cowardly
in their jaundiced hues

the electrolytic impulse spent,
anode and cathode separate
so that no juice may flow,
a breakdown derived from weakness,
the filament stressed and severed,
cracks in the crystalline lattice,
atomic faults mental in form

the side effect,
the progeny,
effortless in its grace
like nature,
balanced perilously
across positive and negative,
alighting in the electron beam,
circumnavigating the endless stream

all things equalize in the loop,
unyielding in its spin
i am but a witness to some greater process
that i can not control,
that i can not touch,
drifting, floating,
dancing, dreaming.

2019sm