Seven Rules from Thick Air

If you have to protect yourself

then you have created the enemy

If you have to love yourself

then you turned away all who could love you

If you have to feed yourself

then you have taken food from others

If you have to go somewhere

then you have never invited enough people to visit you

If you feel surrounded by uneducated people

then you have never told them what you know

If you have no one to touch

it is because you have refused to be touched

If you cry when you are lonely

it is because you never dried the tears of lonely others

Copyright © 2013 by Barry G. Wick all rights reserved

The Communal Campfire

The night surrounds us

and we are not alone

A mother feeds a child

A father worries over debt

Someone has pain

in their back

in their legs

in the emptiness of their soul

The enemy is just over the rise

Workers fulfill their duties

or ignore them
 

This darkness

might as well be a cave

water drips

bats fly

insects crawl through slime
 

The fire just started my refrigerator

burns inside four bulbs

and sends me across the worlds

to where you are

I wish you'd finish

decorating my loincloth

I'm feeling a bit chilly

sitting on this folding rock

listening to Vivaldi
 

Copyright © 2013 by Barry G. Wick All rights reserved.