Stunt

Stunt


We can be paralyzed


Cut at the knee
spine
neck
and not able to move
push
divine forward


open wounds
needing dressing
clothing armour
against shame
concealing humility
shielding weave


wrapped around head
and body
and blanket covering from day
and wanting nothing from it


We can be stilled


by another
and taken upstream
and down to camp
nestled foundation


and made to feel safe
on isle of lotus
eating pain away and drowning
in sedentary stone


Period pound
sentence
stopping
starting


Starting


Must starting


Putter


And get to it again


Back to it all again


Sewing neck
to knee
to spine


and walking forward
out of bed
and towards another
or the same


but that patience 
will be had while running
because stopping
never got one closer


-Matthew Koutzun