My Firm Response

a poem by CA Craig

Please,

check this!

For I have gone far too long

to look out

below

and consider all those things

that you know 

I still do not know!

Consider the world,

the lights,

the action.

Life is sublime surrealism.

And yet you still ask:

What would I exchange?

Neither this nor that

not even this cat that purrs

digging his claws

into my pants.

(Stop it!)

I give up nothing.

After all, what is trade

in the context 

of vague and insincere

contracts?

I stand as a god in this life

and the lowest one at that.

So, I step forward

homeward bound

into the abyss

expecting greater things to come.