Russell Wardlow

how can I walk on a path and foresee the traffic
how can I be more proactive and less reactive
how can I be more attractive and less attracted
how can I be less drastic and less distracted
how can I decrease fractions and be a factor
how can I be wise with math and not add subtractions
how can I whole fragments and embrace abstractions
how can I get into my attic and reveal my highest aspects
that show I’m more than imagined
yet still imagine
that I can be more than I’ve imagine, and then imagine
how can I not get caught in the sap but speak to sadness
how can I increase my vibrations and decrease the static
and senseless chatter
how can I be peace that doesn’t cease in racket
how can I lay down foundations like a mattress
which I can sleep and rise from like magic
never using excuses
but using what lessons produce, then induce it with music
and muse it as passion?

life is not solely perception
but as well
location and identification
what use is perception
when proper location and identification
go unrealized
to realize where you are going
and the place desires to be
one must first
locate yourself
taking everything in
realizing its signature
for everything is saying something
but
what are you listening with
or, what aren’t you?

rising from challenges like the sky
where the falcon is

reception as high as Verizon is

while I peer at peers from a pier
or a balcony

my thoughts as pure as alchemy

I’m an alchemist

counting while bounding calendars
mountains and boundaries

discerning prophecy and fallacy