stereoscopic distortions

Photo by Suzy Hazelwood from Pexels

in the beginning there was the word —
in the end, only images
a perversion of the symbols and pictures
and insights that changed us
from apes to slightly more intelligent apes,
a parade of show-and-tell
where our dreams become hollow obsessions
— she left the man
whose words had the power to heal
to chase the boy who stole scenes…
they wandered together down open roads
with the world on the brink of destruction,
traversed desert…