Lighter Than Ever by Sam Flot

Lighter Than Ever

Senses delicate and desperate

This is not trivial

Densest tenses of slogging through

Across and over

We built the break to stall the onslaught and

We stand here now broken

Looking forward

Released to be a blank slate

Freed from any connections

Other than my mate for life and beyond

Left in bad sneakers and I’m happy to live this moment

As much as all the others

I’m happy to stand on this surface

With existential sense of purpose

This land doesn’t give you what you ask for

This land gives you what you need

So go grab your things and mount your steed

The road leads

Itself out underneath you

Like the blessings of impermanence

Dropped on your head with all the grace of a swinging 2x4

Gather your understandings and move on

Keeping in mind

Moving On Day is easier than Moving Day

Any day

Carry on lighter than ever

Floating on the strength of the air all around us

Floating above the dirt underneath us and

The water inside of us

Carry on with respect for all the elements

Including fire and the majesty of nature in process

Carry on elemental as the day you were born

On a new earth, drinking new water,

Breathing new oxygen, sparking a new fire

In the same ole belly

sf in SF

9.29.2015

Dedicated to Jocelyn

Hammer My Soul by Sam Flot

Hammer My Soul

Displaced but placated, nonetheless

Dancing to my theme music

The dream continued

The ideal was met

Or would be once the future unravels

The hotter the fire

The easier the iron melts

To be fashioned to a shape

Unsatisfied to just exist

I put my iron in the fire

Prepared or not for the twisted outcome

I gave myself for re-shaping

Hammer my soul

Bend it around the art of the world

I will take its shape upon me

And carry on as happy, if not happier

Than ever before

by Sam Flot 2003