Remember the Sky

by James Christopher Sheppard

With rushing and frantically trying to create

anything

worth creating,

that would stand up and bow to the admirers and students

and band wagon jumpers,

it can reach the point of saturation

of having to stop through fear of burning out

or more realistically of failing to create

anything worth creating

for any eye to take the effort to

engage with brain and remember.

So I did look around

and noticed the sky

but not before realising I was stumbling off the trail,

off of the rubble and down a ditch

where trees stood tall and no man could prevail.

I took it all in,

the warnings and signs and noticed

that it couldn’t matter

if I created something worth creating

for eyes and brains to engage or not,

so long as I saw the sky and wasn’t afraid to look up

and risk falling down the ditch

filled with nameless men before me

that saw the sky just I have.