By CJKing
Submitted by hairdiva
Date: 2007 Jun 22
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Tectonic Plates and Penguins

I awoke thinking of penguins, marching,
For some odd reason, their shuffle
Their creature-unlike-any-other stance.
Feeling cigar-like in my bed
I imagined I felt a shift in the earth.
A tectonic-plate contemplation
Of another massive change in direction.

We have to go with it, you know.
Fighting it is the most futile move of all
And I am learning, possibly, that futility
Is to be avoided, because we are here
For a short time. Each day counting
Is an ambition to strive for.  

I awoke thinking of penguins, marching
And I shuffled out of bed
With a new, and yet very old, ambition.  
The floor of the ocean leads us
Change is coming
It's coming.