Time and Life

By  Axochi L.

Time and life

I rode them bareback

Since those terrible twos

And the troubled teens

Jumpin’ erected school fences

Hiding under bridges

Gallopin’ wildly into streets

Disregarding rules

Trampling cornstalks

Early years

Under the influence of peers

Time and life, out of control.

Time and life

I’ve seized them

With my poetic soul

Through rusted out bars.

Neruda offered a bridle

With which to guide them.

Paz provided the saddle

To comfort my journey.

I gallop respectfully

Onto those paths

Established by modern society.

I control this mustang with love. 

I guide this pinto with patience.

I feed them

Apples of hope and

Sweet Grains of liberty.