This Is Where The World Goes

This Is Where The World Goes

We have fallen

away from where we were

Walking forward

in unison

has been turned away,

and the damage

we left in our absences

has begun to take root,

in ourselves,

and in the ground.

Sides will be chosen, and we will 

separate

ourselves 

from those we once held dear.

Hands have acted out

what we thought in anger

for a moment

and the ripples of emotion

has begun to pull 

the current at our feet.

We have tripped over the axes

that have cut us off 

from communication,

and where we were.

We will claim that 

others made the choices

and yes, 

all those words were not your own

but the color of the aftermath

shades us all

clouds our memories

strains our judgment

more than the past

ever thought

we would go.

Yet we will not allow

ourselves

to repairs the motions, 

and leaving

where we were

behind

is sometimes

the hardest fall,

of all.

We are nearly there

to where we soon will be,

yet so far away 

from where we were.

-Daniel Coston

June 14, 2012