Looking Out
Looking out in that moment, he saw only fragments
Of unfulfilled dreams, of once-idealistic intentions
That came as a flow, once rushing, then slowed,
Pooling of thoughts into clever compartments
For David
These words aren't the ones that I wanted to write
The coffee cup curves round my hand as I struggle
To capture my thoughts, perhaps with a poetic lilt
All that I hope
All that I hope is that, somewhere beyond
The realms of our thinking
New truths, new factors are still to be found
Connections between what we know to be
I wallow in the muck of self-induced calamity
Options never taken, they illustrate complicity
In choosing what is broken, I define a way to be
Choked with the unspoken, drunk on insobriety
Walking the Talk
Piecing together a plan of campaign
Capturing actions and loading the train
With well-structured sources of composite data,
Not forcing the answers but stating an aim
Which leaves all