you're not listening

I have been an example, an excuse
something is proved through
me

you're not listening if
- you miss the point of their screams
- you don't know what configuration
has made their statements possible

the world is further
and deeper than we thought
and what we know of it unravels
from our hands like fallen banners

the moon disappears
behind the schoolyard trees
boys playing games
that kill them, eventually

beyond the horizon, lightning cracked
its white sheets
the migraine of potential
wrong stormed toward us
frenzied with stars