Something's grayed in the transition
from here to where:
an ambition muddied.
Sullied,
and aching for salvage:
Correctible at a cost.
Pull back and wave the smoke
off the road:
retry, reroute.
Or stand stout,
and bake in the fumes
of the humanity wrought.
Humanity
What civilization presents as options lives here. I felt it having walked it.- slc