Elucidating Questions

It’s an arch but it’s a roadway,

Some lines but it’s so defined.

Away into the horizon of a simple blue line.

Seven thousand stars.

But I didn’t count the twins.

Ten thousand stars.

But I didn’t count the the triplets.

Fifteen thousand stars.

But I didn’t count what I can’t see.

A number I don’t know.

But I didn’t count the ones that are gone.

Stuttering human bonds,

Uneven footing, stepping over the ground.

The arduous bonds of human society.

The birds that walk, chained

By gravity of time and those silent rules.

These strange birds that don’t fly.

They walk.

Stuttering, they walk.