anything that needs doing
can be done
fires grow easily
and burn themselves out
on the sun
every day is a perfect day
but down here it’s dark
and the leaves are always falling
you leave the same house every day
and become local history
an object on the pavement
a drawing on the wall
but it’s easy to go anywhere
and have a nice time
all you have to do
is count your life as a blessing
hold onto your memories
like helium balloons
live like an eddy
in the trickle of a stream
and die like an apple
collapsed into a seed