The one-way ticket’s
Obsolete.
The two-way ticket’s
Recommended.
Even if
The initial flight
Projectiles into earth ablaze,
Smoldering wreckage wide,
The return trip’s
Always valid.
Sure,
News teams will
Gather/Dissect/Opinionate
Upon the circumstances,
And the tears will fall,
And the cameras will catch
Every last drop.
Yet,
All tragedies pass;
All memories fade,
As the flashes pollute
The eyes longer
Than the dark.
Normalcy will return
And we’ll wait
Holding our breath
For that next flight
That might end
Like the last.
4 comments:
This is an idea that I thought of last night while watching the Lakers game. Thanks Kobe!
This is The Kobe Poem in my book. There's small spaces left for fine tuning (I stumble on the word "normalcy"), but I love the ideas present here, and I'm jealous that a Clipper fan wrote a better tribute to the Laker icon than I ever could.
I particularly like the 4th stanza and the idea of flashes polluting. The glitz and glamour definitely resonates more than the bad, unseemly times. Where's the Blake Griffin poem? What rhymes with "broken kneecap"?
Haha! That final tidbit in your comment is harsh!
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