Listening (Grateful Perspective)

Listening (Grateful Perspective)

Songs

that never caused ripples

on the morning water,

now crash and wear the stones 

with curled white knuckles, 

or maybe the palms 

have just forgotten 

how they once bent 

amid the hurricane 

that rewrote the musical staff, 

changing the channels and passed 

to open and close.

But now my aging borders

crack, 

spilling the fertile soil 

and welcoming the tides

to enter.

Robert L. Jackson III