we invent words
-------like minds
---and then try to find
-------------the things
--we've made them stand for

nihilistic
-fires -no
-----belief
--was
----to
-------go

-----making connections

is about

--------------making connections

---No expectations
--------------(Be) (Just) as you are.

Traffic lights,
-------------horizon seas
---------standing under the shelter
-------------------------big rain
-----------------------------------------human
--------Bright horizon
--------------like a slither of a dream
----and then the real
-------------------people come out

-------Rain and thunder
--------------to wash away the sea

---The im-
------------pure-
--------------------ities

-And how can I have a bad day?
----I see a disabled man in his buggy
--I go down to the sea
---------------slither sky-
-----------watch- --really watch-
------------------------------------the waves

--------a patchwork of puddled
-----------------concrete slabs

YES, life is a struggle,

but that's not what we're (ultimately) here for.

(It's always ultimately).

Being human
---is about learning
--what being human is.

-------There are no
-----external qualifications
------------------for that

another false
printed promise

--to be
and to
-----express

this -- is
--really
-happening

think tired
---feel tired
-be tired

this
--is
-magic

think
yourself
free

feel
yourself
free

be
yourself,

free