fall and grow

the scales keep falling away
fall fall falling away from my eyes
only to discover more scales
it’s scales all the way down
every wisdom hard-found
either forgotten
or misused or
disproven
over time
and yet
you have to keep on going

every brick you put in a wall
leaves a much-needed bridge wanting
and every bridge-brick leaves
a needless wall wanting the same
and there are only so many bricks, brother
so many and so few
it’s all the same to me
it’s all the same to you
fall fall falling away
and yet
sometimes you don’t have any bricks at all

when you’re too cold
you lose feeling in your hands
and when you’re too lonely
you lose a hand in your feelings
and you only get so many feelings, sister
so many and so few
it’s all the same to me
it’s all the same to you
fall fall falling away
and yet
sometimes feelings fail

when considering the act
of raging against the dying of the light
remember it is rage
that is killing the light in the first place
it has you playing its game, friend!
you are doing its dirty work
in lieu of raging
consider instead
the act of learning how to glow
learn how to glow
learn to shine so goddamned hard
you blast that asshole darkness
into atoms and to rags
darkness ain’t no thing
it is just light’s absence
learn to let the rage just fall away
fall fall fall away
and yet
sometimes that doesn’t work either
and either way
you have to keep on growing
grow grow growing
growing today