We Are Together

Words, colors, people, places, the clothes we wear

No offense.

21 May 2012, Silver Lake still

Kaizer is writing a story about neutral angels

They cannot choose a side

Light or dark; they must only bear witness

Every day they must gouge out the

Patch of skin where nubby feathers begin again

Do you understand the anguish inherent to neutrality?

Tears streamed my cheeks

When he told me the story of the story

He is going to tell

And I gasped for air at the

Surface to which he pulled me

Hand to elbow, elbow to hand

From the depths of the blue ocean

Where my spirit threatens to sleep