blind obedience turns to questions

when the teacher fails to provide,

what? said the student whose eyebrows shot up

due to feigned ignorance, a plausible answer, vague notions

like wind, farting, puff and the cloud becomes acid rain

and a mentor is struggling to tread water

for legs that never had their first kick, a tail failing to emerge

though tall stories did mention impossibles,

how can it be? asked the bemused crowd for tainted silver

erodes, permeates, diffuses through layers of whitewash

becoming clearer as rain corrodes, empties all the fluffy

pillows unable to withstand a typhoon, a hurricane, it is

a change of the weather with new rules, patterns, dots

coloring the pavements – mentor and student merged

like water, feelings, cognition swirled within layers of unspoken

words: clashing together to find insights, roots, heart

buried in caves, symbols, the contents analyzed with microscopes

that shed light though others would call it a different name.

who benefits? asked the weather fickle, asked the wind,

with rain dissolving all these hard to swallow truths, carried

over the years as a gentle loving god crumbles

and a song, a melody takes shape, forms to become a soothing

prayer to absolve a life held in anchors by gods that did not exist,

then the green sprouts their first leaves, life breathing air for the

first time with truths redefined, god is just a name

whose invocation meant a label plastered on a mouthpiece,

discerning spirits picked apart each word scrambled together,

like encryption being declassified, the hidden meaning

appears like lemon juice on invisible ink.

hearken, to the splendors, the dismal languid fairy folks

dressed as angels still bickering about who is more real,

and mentors and student, master and servant intertwined,

stories fell like water from the sky, too heavy to keep intact

for transformation pries apart all the crevices, nooks and hooks

that like bait hang on air: awaiting, brooding, pending

till the change came about and the dna is finally unraveled.

two species from the same root, a cuckoo takes her first flight

in air breaking, a smelly fart cascading on the audience

no longer amused of what was once a comedy, a satire, something

to be gleeful about dying, fading, the prominent

becomes obscure when songs, patterns, music shed

light to a heart, the mind still tries to piece together missing fragments,

atgc with something extra, mused the poet

nodding off to sleep in a blissful state no longer

troubled by exotic flairs, flamboyant styles, vulgar messages

fading into the distance with surfaces unruffled, a skin flawless

beneath many layered flesh. to ponder, to question, to seek

when all the answers reside in the heart.