Lynn Jodeit Ouellette, Minneapolis Bridge between Loring Park and Sculpture Garden 2025 safe lyric or poem
why fight to survive
why compete
so incomplete
it’s all there is
it’s ugly
but you are beautiful
you feel safe
the world does not
you seem scared
i want to help
i feel scared being in your fear
unable to be the one for your escape
but I want to stay
not run away
wait
in the moat that separates
tread water as long as it takes
you are worth it
you are real
ready or not
even if I die here
i seek a boat, a bridge, a fire
that drains the moat
of hate and ire
but when it seems complete
reality reveals its a slippery pebble
we can only tip toe on a moment
then fall in and drift a part
more love in heart
for togetherness, still achingly far
maybe after I die
maybe generations away
is the togetherness
I crave
maybe its where everyone has died
where we look back
after all the surviving energy is depleted
and soul existence
becomes our common ground finally
Lynn Jodeit Ouellette ©2024
Expressed after spurts of trying to process chasm between people groups that miss out on connection due to pain that somehow shields people from one another, even if they want to build a bridge. How it felt and wanted to come out one day.
why fight to survive
why compete
so incomplete
it’s all there is
it’s ugly
but you are beautiful
you feel safe
the world does not
you seem scared
i want to help
i feel scared being in your fear
unable to be the one for your escape
but I want to stay
not run away
wait
in the moat that separates
tread water as long as it takes
you are worth it
you are real
ready or not
even if I die here
i seek a boat, a bridge, a fire
that drains the moat
of hate and ire
but when it seems complete
reality reveals its a slippery pebble
we can only tip toe on a moment
then fall in and drift a part
more love in heart
for togetherness, still achingly far
maybe after I die
maybe generations away
is the togetherness
I crave
maybe its where everyone has died
where we look back
after all the surviving energy is depleted
and soul existence
becomes our common ground finally
Lynn Jodeit Ouellette ©2024
Expressed after spurts of trying to process chasm between people groups that miss out on connection due to pain that somehow shields people from one another, even if they want to build a bridge. How it felt and wanted to come out one day.
