Ride
Published in
Dec 3, 2022
The world has changed from yesterday,
it got transformed,
it moved away,
it went astray,
it slid adrift along a strident Doppler shift.
It bested me and went ahead.
I was too slow for it to wait.
It didn’t know it was my ride, or felt my spurs dig in its side,
it missed my soft voice in its head,
it didn’t notice that I led.
It ran its course and fizzled out, and a new world came from behind
which overtook it while it laughed
and left it choking on its dust.
And I jumped on the better steer.
Yesterday’s gone
but I’m still here.
