spiritual shoes
Button it up
or undo all the buttons and fasteners
if that's what it takes to get yourself out
out of the chains
out of the laces
undo all your laces and latches
button up.
In blue shoes
floating from time to blooming time
lucky like a weak slap in the seam
getting somewhere
out of here
floating from time to blooming time
in blue shoes.
In cotton semblance blanketed
it is soft and we are protected
in naked metaphor wrapped
it is a way our way
in wool lines evenly woven
it is commanding but unconvincing
can it keep together
all the rain you rained?
My spiritual leader
considered by the young to be elevated
above everything that came afterward
an elder for the needy
older than springwater
considered by the now to be then
my spiritual leader.
Lying here
where so many have lain before
girls laughing somewhere nearby
over their heightened
sense of exposure
where so many have laughed before
lying here.
In cotton semblance blanketed
it is soft and we are protected
in naked metaphor wrapped
it is a way our way
in wool lines evenly woven
it is commanding but unconvincing
can it keep together
all the rain you rained?
