PEACE IN THE PICTURE.

PEACE IN THE PICTURE

The peace is in the picture.

I have been wallowing in it.

I have immersed myself in the stink

Of it.  Sometimes I go for a long drive

And relax.  It does the body some good.

Everything dwindles to nothing. 

The esteem is in everyone else.  I have

Tried to find myself in wallowing;

The darkness knows me not.  Some people

Love for the sake of loving, others, because

They do not want to be alone. 

I have immersed myself in the knowing

Of everything; in the believing that the darkness

Will rise out of the darkness, and the

Shadows will not be ripe for the taking. 

Everything is grand and grander still,

For the want of knowing something.    

Sometimes I think that maybe I want something

Else, better than what I had before,

But then I realize the height of it is respect,

And the depth of it is respect, even when

It is snowing or raining or the weather is doing

Something you do not like.