Landing skids

Around the table of vitality
one by one we pluck pedals
and know our realities are misguided perceptions
yet we grab on to that distortion
we call landing skids
in hopes that we will rise to freedom.

The rise is really self-motivation or
self sabotage cemented by seeds of siege
and when paralyzed- mummified

we know it will never bloom or reach
the vibrant potential of a chrysanthemum.