(Indebtedness)

Do I owe an explanation

For the lack of contribution,

A waning flow to trickle to dry

Of petty profundities performed

with choreographed complexities,

chaos and an absence of exuberance 

exploded in

gesticulations,

not i.

Where my arms dangled limply, 

bulging and blue-tipped,

there was no more holding on

to words like wind and when

yet with

all loses I have gained

a fine-tuned 

moment-hum…

Artwork by Fernand Khnopff, c. 1883 in [Public domain or CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.