if you are willing to learn and burn

if you are willing to learn and burn





bridges are what we are made of. 
bridges
to kingdoms of love.

and if
you are willing to learn
and burn
off the chaff of centuries of
a misguided craft
carried by the ages on the rafts of sages
who
thought they knew precisely what
was best for me and you
then you too
can be a lighthouse on a hill.


and this
is
the only thing that falls
from the skies.
as a boy still cries wolf among the disbelieving
pretending he's receiving
divine code
when
it's only water lapping
onto an overloaded raft.


bridges to a future
beyond
gods of the past.
bridges
at 
long last.





sjw 03/06/17 inspired at this very moment in time by c'mon gimme a break.  really?  you have no idea?  please.  what is he chopped liver?




from the 'beauty series' of poems