Blowin' In the Wind

(dedicated to Bob Dylan
and to John Travolta for his performance in "Phenomenon")

Possibilities

POSSIBILITIES

floating around me in the wind
like so many maple leaves

Possibilities, graceful possibilities

profitable possibilities,
ethical possibilities,
lewd possibilities,
fatal possibilities,
pathetic possibilities,

graceful possibilities

some I can easily grasp:
others, year after year elude my finger-tips
till my spirits have turned not to red
or yellow,
(the natural hues of Fall)
but to a seething, melancholy blue

For though the authoritative, TV, chess-board voices
repeat to me that my life is over,
I still see green possibilities

nonetheless, one way or the other,
I believe it fitting
(for me and for you)
to take contemplative, star-gazing moments,

To thus know that a single life
(whether lean with discipline or
with innovative ambition swollen and huge)
is but a passing note
in the insurpassable cosmic fugue