Buddy's Poem

One day I was sitting along the shores of the river and I noticed around me a slight haze

Munching on a spiced beetle, I let it envelope me

it smelled sweet and dank

Along down the stream came a bottle with a little paper inside, which I decided to ignore, it reminded me of my friend sunny who once lost an eye so I figured I’d better steer clear

It also reminded me of my mother but I do not know why

I pondered this for a moment…

Sunny wasn’t from around here so he was odd to me, talked about strange things I didn’t understand and didn’t even enjoy a proper mash

(long pause)

The bottle got caught up in the reeds and I says to me

We’ll if that ain’t a sign that would could possibly be

So I put on my waders, covered in flowers and muck from an expedition a few weeks before that is not relevant to this particular poem

however do ask me again at some point

Because it’s a funny story and my pal sunny lost his eye that day

(short pause, remove your eyes)

So I waded into the water after tying my waist with some juku

And I thought to myself, how wonderful and cool this particular water was as it ran along my thighs

I remembered the gash that Sunny had sustained just the other day and shook a bit

I pondered whether sunny actually may have deserved to have half sight

As he never really used both eyes anyways and that just seems selfish when some have no eyes

Old sunny was a funny fellow in that way, I wonder what he’s up to now that I’m up in the sky and he’s only got the one eye, or so he did when I last saw him

The bottle had floated a little further into the reeds so me and mucky waders wandered forward —reaching out with my hand—stretching the juku vine with each step

What if that bottle held within itself the mystery of life? Or maybe it could tell me of far off lands

Perhaps it was from Sunny, telling me he found his eye but his eye said no way–you never used me in the first place

As I pondered the bottle I looked up at the trees

What funny things, trees

Grass I understood, grass it made sense, but trees? Why so high? But still tethered ground? It’s like they were caught in some gamble where they wanted to fly but didn’t know how

Trees were just like Sunny, they needed to appreciate what they had or else one day they’d loose it and when they wanted it back, when the ground or the sky came by they’d say NO you didn’t love me when you had me so you cannot have me back

I sat in the water for a bit, soaking in the haze thinking about that damn bottle and what it contained

(long pause / remove the trees)

After a few minutes I got up and walked closer to the bottle until it was within reach and pondered again the trees and Sunny and me

Did I need this bottle, with its little message inside? Or did I just want it for my collection, to be put on a shelf and never to be pondered again

I finally reached it and put it into my hand, just then the juku felt taught against my waist and like a tree I was off into the sky while tethered to the ground

As I flew back and forth from the shore to the water and the water to the shore, I had quite a while to ponder the trees, perhaps they had done something wrong and were being punished because this is what it felt like to me

(Long, long pause, ponder the trees)

After a few hours, the juku finally went slack and I was able to sit, after I untied myself I cleaned myself in the river as there had been expulsions during my grounded flight, the likes of which I’ve known before

I opened the bottle and wouldn’t you know, the paper just had symbols, no drawings at all! Not a use to me and certainly not a use to anyone

I realized that day that I was a tree and that it was all absurd and that I may as well try and live out as a tree, bound by ground but living in air

So here I am now, with this silly scrap, that means nothing to no one but I still keep it with me

Would you like to see the foolishness that inspired this verse?

(scrap: I've lost my other eye -d'Sunny)

Soundtrack: https://soundcloud.com/user-644083391/silly-newage-by-scout/s-9yW7Kq2xQIi