a little trouble

 

to cause a little trouble

is to splash the placidness of expectations

to create a current other than the submissive flow

to give up on ankle deep safety 

and full on belly flop, nose dive, 

bolt gallop splashing, cannonball plunge

be water surface full contact expressive

don't just swim from here to there

make active deeply expressive

make the liquidity of circumstance 

your dancehall partner

all animation is agitation willingly so

find that rules have a lip-service devotion

to honor the gods 

yet by praying 

in your own special way

be the mystic 

before becoming the decision maker

take up more space sacredly

with a sense of being alive

some people are destined to be door stops

others, kite tails 

in the wandering breezy sky

but you

you make mischief into magic

others will appraise

but they are in the imminently recent past

from what the happening you is about

trouble is just waves 

in the lake of others' expectations

be the rain from the sky

and its land where it does . . .