Aerialist (With A Nod And a Twist)

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. - Thoreau

to and fro on a terse trapeze

diligently praying down upon my knees

up and down on a trampoline

clutching the uneven bars of an ugly scene

my heart walking a narrow balance beam

pinned down on the mat of acrobatics

emotions clutching the rings of stochastics

heavy steel, not flimsy plastics

anchored in the clouds by ecclesiastics

my days fall like matchsticks

not so limber pragmatics

some dull and wet

others inflaming

not name calling, just naming

blaming

shaming

claiming

maiming

defaming

at least i'm still here

aiming

taming

and

proclaiming

Author's Note

"There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself." - Thoreau