Reductio
It was while walking with the evening wind,
Listening to Death Cab for Cutie that I heard the stars giggle in celestial mockery
Of the man I had become,
I was out again on an evening walk and groping for crumbs of peace where I did not leave them,
The peopley streets oozed laughter, rising like incense into the sky and the cars cockroached through the roads
constantly in rush hour, with blinking lights and horns.
It is strange that I found solace in these tremulous ululations,
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Walking on hand in hand with the moon and emptying my mind of the faceless questions and what ifs that lurked,
Never going to sleep no matter how much silence I gulped down.
It’s like dancing on the brows of eternity,
swaying along in nature’s cradle,
The ambience of the evening drowned out my worries —
And I got home feeling like a brand new slate,
Ready for the worries of a brand new day.
notes: I wrote this last night when I stepped out for a walk, it was quite a windy evening and when I looked up, the stars had come out looking brighter than on most nights and so was the moon. It was in the process of savouring the moment that this came out and I quickly wrote as it came and I hope it reminds you of the importance of slowing down sometimes.
The title, Reductio means rejuvenation in Latin.
