deadlines and duties,
desks and doorways,
dress shirts and deserts of boxes and files,
computer consoles and haggard souls,
waiting for time to shift the wind,
punching keys, building words,
towers of paper ideas,
losing, gaining,
sinning to win, and losing again,
chairs and clocks,
leather shoes over dress socks,
loopholes and lip service,
beamer keys and stacked PhDs,
proving, disproving,
arguing, constructing,
what's broken, fragmented, split,
unreflected, un-listened, unchanged,
bitterness grabs and shakes,
this desperation, this fatigue,
this frustration, this tightened line,
how much can one man take?
waiting for someone...
someone waiting for me,
it's different now,
where the sea meets the sky,
where the window opens,
to a clean wind,
to silence,
the mind burns down,
in the quiet night,
sleep...
the breath of mercy.
