Magic (published in Moon Drenched Fables)

Those who lack magic in their soul,
who instead have clocks for hearts
and gyroscopes behind their eyes
who never misplace time
or lose their balanced walk

use words like "depression",
"bipolar", or "schizoaffective disorder"
and "disorganized speach and thinking"
resulting in
"significant social or occupational dysfunction"
to describe those who live their lives
at the tails of the consensual,
far from the mean,
or the small.

It is exhausting to have liquid light
flowing through your veins,
you can try to explain.
But the fact is lost
as the clocks tick and the gyros spin,
pens scratching down notes
classifying this as a metaphor
or worse.

Sometimes it is just easier
to go along and pretend
that it is not possible
to speak in colors
or to lift up the rug of reality
and peer deep into truth.