Thursday, September 19, 2019

Thoughts of Maya

"The corporation is there to serve...",
"The corporation is there to serve...",
          Like a rosary one intones,
But as its revolving karmic doors
                       Open and close
          One grasps
At chimeras,
                    Welcomes familia,
          Works out deep-seated
                Personal traumas
     Before objective strangers
             In all but name

-- And then they go,
                Like you,
           To greener
                     Bank vaults,
Without the wisp of
     A reason why
           You came in like
                 A whirlwind,
     Upsetting every plate,
                      Then slipped away
            Without a seismic trace,
     The only crack of recall
            Within the permanent
                      Walls.

What will we remember
             In the wake?
The glimpse into
             What once existed
      Or the eye
                      That caught
             Some light?