Voboril: In search of chill
Chill I am repeatedly told as if
It were so easy to reduce the temperature
Of my emotions or to slow the kinetics
That propel me perpetually forward
I need space for the blazing heat
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That warms and fires and
Combusts the engine revving and whirring
On the serpentine streets of my dreams
The machine does not have cruise
Control nor does it possess a speedometer
As such precision is unnecessary when
One travels in binary fashion stop or go
Top down along the coast with a
Partner alongside is a common idyll
That I share if we zoom curves and
Cackle as we narrowly avoid a seaward plunge
SCUBA provides a portal to a slower
Ecosystem shifting and adapting to the
Currents that I swim against and blow
Through my tank forced to surface
I aspire to the laconic gait
Of a surfer and would not mind
The hair either, those flowing
Golden locks signifying peace
The juxtaposition of a raging
Ocean and a sliver of fiberglass
Mounted by a preternaturally calm
Being is an engaging dichotomy
Usually I am the wave or at least
Being crushed by one as I grin
And choke and relish the saline flush
Of a solid lesson taught for eons
Frozen water being my milieu
I am nonetheless running hotter
Than Hades as the friction of my
Steeds melts the crystals beneath
Wind whips with a bite that excites
My smile and carries my proclamations
Everywhere and nowhere such that I
Speak louder and pretend that helps
Movement is a bulwark against the
Chill and a reason that I cannot embrace
It although I can avoid hypothermia
And the complacency that I fear more
Restless I still do not believe in resting
When I am dead because that seems like
Perhaps too late and a bit silly since it is
Likely that the afterlife is a helluva party
Searching for the yin to my yang may help
Slow me down but I also think it is possible
That I need another yang so that we can
Discover chill together or at least burn out trying
T.J. Voboril is a founding partner at Alpenglow Law, LLC, a local law firm, and the Owner/Mediator at Voice Of Reason Dispute Resolution. For more information, please contact him at (970) 306-6456, tj@alpenglowlaw.com, or visit AlpenglowLaw.com.
