Can't Help But Wonder

skipping every other step down
an inertia carried southbound
on a train back home to you
felt a power in the stillness
and a critical resilience
a pushback overdue

it doesn't have an address
it changes with the context
the future stares you down and you stare right back and say:

and i can't help but wonder
if the light that we're losing
comes from the cracks in the logic
i've been leaning on for years

i learned that every new footprint
of every new development
will displace something else

in a garden made of mirror and ceramic
east midwest to mid-Atlantic
framed in grout and concrete and
gifted like a travel souvenir

so when i spin around
and look for validation
remind me that the inches i'm losing
off of massive fields of space are well-deserved.

and i can't help but wonder
if the light we're losing
comes from the cracks in the logic
i've been leaning on for years

and i can't help but wonder
if the light we're losing
comes from the cracks in the logic
i've been leaning on

and i can't help but wonder
if the light we're losing
comes from the cracks in the logic
i've been leaning on
i've been leaning on