chagall backdrop

What we hope to achieve
exceeds our time
and so we stress,

feel the tug
– or is it the push? –
down the stairs.

Planets and radio
beams surround
the naive heads-down

in day-to-day dabbling
and babbling.

Bubble up!
Rise to the occasion
(at least occasionally).

You’ve nothing to prove,
that’s what the pudding said.

© Carlos Chagall, 2013