Futility

"For a vision that exists only as the wind does"

“Emergence” by Nicole Kurland, a local Corrales-based artist

This is a demo of a song called “Landline Wasteland” that my friend Meredith and I wrote together a few years back. At the end of a roadtrip, I visited Mer in her new hometown and we worked out all the parts and lyrics to an idea we had been noodling on for a while. The birds helped out too.

Landline Wasteland

I jotted this poem down in between meetings at the roundhouse this week, and thought it was worth sharing.

Futility

Our invisible 
dying efforts
for a future 
that exists 
only as the 
wind does,
passing by

We do what we can do

Until one day
the boulder 
we pushed 
up the hill
all our lives
has turned 
to sand