The Tie That Binds, by Charlie Rossiter

The Horizon, by Rene Magritte (Belgium), 1938.

The Tie That Binds

I’m searching for something
we can all recognize,
something that connects us.
I don’t know--maybe it’s a sight,
like the Milky Way
on a clear new moon night
or a high note from heaven or
maybe an aroma. Whatever it is,
I think it’s something
we experience simply by
being human.  Then again,
maybe it’s not sensory.
This began with the senses
but now I’m thinking big. Like
maybe it’s something intangible.
I’m getting lost in the vastness
and also in abstractions
like “heart” and “soul” and “spirit”
as if my mind has gone off
in space with ideas
flying around like planets
that have escaped their orbits,
or maybe shooting stars.
It’s all supremely slippery
with nothing to grab on to.
Have you ever felt that way?
I don’t know.
Maybe it’s that feeling
we get, lost in our thoughts,
in an infinite universe of ideas--
maybe that’s the tie that binds,
maybe that’s what we all
have in common.

Charlie Rossiter

This poem was written for the Surprise Challenge, ekphrastic poetry about Magritte paintings.

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