Era – Jeremy Szuder

All of the nights, for now,

stay quiet in this post evening

darkness.

There is the breath of us all,

from our bodies, and I

am positive that in those heads,

there resides the visions

and the rapid eye movements

that conjure an escape plan of dreams.

The animals in the rained streets

are still very much awake, however.

They have waited in their own

primal patience for mankind

to turn off the vices of our minds.

And still, somewhere else,

in between the fools and the fowl,

there is the fainting click of

water droplets slapping down

into the kitchen sinks of gluttony,

and outside onto the soils

of our manicured spoiled grasses.

Clouds hike in miles after miles,

trailing behind the ocean rains,

cascading the elixir of life

all across this planetary complexion,

fortifying itself in robust sheets

of sweet come-what-may.

We the people have staved away

our better judgements for now

and left our keys dangling

in the doors of evolution

while everything out of our grasp

goes on and on,

and with that I might note,

quite beautifully!

But I think I sometimes hear

the faint laughter of nature

coming from the hills and I look–

into my empty palms and then to the ground,

and see the tired and selfish footsteps

of my brothers, and myself for that matter,

then I am seeing and knowing,

that we all are on our way

to the end of another era.

Jeremy Szuder is a born and bred California native, raised with a tender and dedicated loyalty to the arts. His poems have been published in The Metaworker, Harbinger Asylum, The Hungry Chimera, Fine Print Literary and Visual Arts Publication, as well as the 15 years of self published offerings he has created, most recent, “The Huckleberry Finn Effect”, released in 2017 and “12 Poems To Uplift”, released in 2019. Szuder lives in Glendale California. Jeremy Szuder can be reached at jeremyszuder@gmail.com