Compound Locomotion by Bob Atkinson

Compound Locomotion

(c)2012 Bob Atkinson

compound locomotion

begins movement at the start

pulsing in its inclination

to push all those wicked hearts

stretching close bonds between

remaining still or moving backwards

hard pulses of independence

rattle status quos as it shatters

by breaking all those directed paths

of minds who would conform

to that which nature has produced

in her effort to move us onward

many, many ways become

expansions of the soul

with compound locomotion

driving us to our homes

the alternative moves within

the group's directional norm

and gives up all advancement

in exchange for social comfort

comfort becomes the ease

with which we give up the ghost

and die without knowing

did we accomplish all we hoped