Ways of We

Ways of We

by Ryan Billington

December 21, 2011

The differences 'tween ways of "we"

That some cause rage and some cause glee

So random, indistinguished, free;

That with you, might I simply be

In unadorned simplicity.

Yet switch me to another "we"

To learn synthesis of austerity

Though hard we strive, nere to see

A more twisted connectivity--

A mess of me in we.

Stark dichotomy is this:

The first--surreal, ethereal bliss

"Possible" eclipsed by surprising tryst

A world repainted with magic's kiss

Encompassed by enlightened mist

We dash along each other's twists,

And in "we," I find me free.

The second path, e'er more so tangled

The twists between, so gnarled, mangled

Damage by confused harangules*

Speeches choked with gangled jangles

So lost are we, in woods, triangled

'Tween you and me and we...

Lost in missed simplicity.

I wish to emphasize a truth--

Though discordancies run uncouth,

While harmony reigns in youth

In these different paths of "we,"

These different degrees of simplicity,

That one is not e'er set in better

Though easier it may be forever

But both essential, learning tethers

To life, you, me, and we--

To matchless, danced complexity--

Truths in ways of we.

*Harangule -  a mid-sized diatribe, in a similar juxtaposition as the mid-sized SUV, or arterioles and venules in the human body; a medium-sized verbal attack.