Partner Ship

An edifice built on quicksand
Only has so long to stand
While sunlit skies still glow
And fair-weather winds blow

Soon enough those storms will show
And that’s when we’ll really know
If there’s any solid foundation
Or just a bivouac imagination

The hardest part of Partner Ship
Is settling on one course
When we’re all on a different trip
Back to the same old source

If this is a test of my patience
I don’t know if anyone passed
They say patience is a virtue
But so is getting it done fast

Hairs split into pure thin air
Debating hallucinations
Scaling stairs which lead nowhere
In mindless reiteration

Vanity’s bonfire zips
Underneath winter’s glaze
Oh, we’re only going through a phase
These days will slip into history’s haze
If this bridge doesn’t burn over a phrase

The hardest part of Partner Ship
Is settling on one course
When we’re all on a different trip
Back to the same old source

Just because we’re here now
Doesn’t mean we’re not there then
There’s a lot I’d love to disavow
But we’ll probably do it all again

Seeds of optimism
Drowned in springtime rains
We were only going through a phase
Down slippery slopes over homegrown clichés
Fate always seems to turn on a phrase

Peace poses the golden riddle:
At what point do opposite sides agree?
Truth might be right down the middle
Halfway between you and me

The hardest part of Partner Ship
Is settling on one course
When we’re all on a different trip
Back to the same old source

Fortune scorching
Under summer’s rays
We were only going through a phase
We went torching set the Earth ablaze
Such is the power of a well-placed a phrase

Time is shaped like a funnel
Only one way to slide
Deeper in toward the tunnel
And out the other side

The hardest part of Partner Ship
Is settling on one course
When we’re all on a different trip
Back to the same old source

February 18, 2017. Category: Word Jazz.

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