Spiral

See the great Hawk soar
Assured of its ever expanding dominion
Master of all it can discern
Effortless
Using the very wind as but one more of the tools at his command
Master
Owner
Regent
Patriarch of its world
Perspicacious
Insouciant
Circling at will
Resting when inclined
Never inert
Always observant
Always in control.

See the Man
Caught in a spiral
Propelled by the thrust of the wind
Without recourse, at its very mercy
Impotent to his surroundings
Unalterably contested for his very breath
Controlled by all nature and Man with no will at his own command
Dominated
Burdened
Entrapped in a whorl of existence
Without slumber
Enfeebled
Ineffective
Without control.

Envious of the soaring raptor
Resentful while in wishful awe
Desirous of a portion of that self-determination
For control of his own fate
Locked in a slow spiral without choice
Into a deepening blackness
An emptiness
Enveloping
An all encompassing nothing that is a life bereft
See the Hawk
See him soar
From the vantage of my void.


[i][size="1"]G - January 2008[/size][/i]