Bubble
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Tusker is trying to balance on a target
that is wrapped up in rules
a target shaken by testing tremors
with examined results and consequences
He is perched wobbler high
on its tall and stressful summit
This is certainly a tricky target
Not a brand that Tusker feels ‘King Skills’ of
Just a few ticks tocked
and the target starts demanding
and Tusker watches himself handing over
his ripple calm brow
the ping bounce of his heart strides
and the pillowing warmth
of his steady flow breath
With every further tick tocked on top of the target
Tusker wants off
So he squeezes his mind in its middle
and an escape bubble forms in the now
Sequencing a reboot
to the brightest pixel dawn
the bubble invites Tusker to flee
Inside the bubble
time is stunned
in sponged stillness
Outside the bubble
the beginning
middle
and end of all happening
bounce off its shell
And all from tapping whispers to spit whistles
are silenced
at its borders
[affective as the thickness of oceans]
Swaddled by the bubble
Tusker is given the elastic space
in which he can convert
weight into warm wave
pressure into fantasy
anxiety into escape
And the bubble carries Tusker
one trip round the sun*
Below Tubha gazes up
focused by his most patient aim to connect
Chewie has seen the orbit of such bubble's before
This may be some wait
He moves on _______
immunised by his appetite for now
And the bubble carries Tusker
two trips round the sun*
And as it passes overhead
an itch in Tubha's brain prompts him to rise
He moves on to connect
where other connects
are connecting
through connection
And the bubble carries Tusker
three trips round the sun*
But each circuit now drains
the waking from his eyes
Inside
frozen moments begin to shard
and judder free
leaking
and venting splintered seconds
Then
a fierce crack of erupting time
scorches Tusker's unblinking concentration
and a roasting wave of exhaustion
rips across the back of his eyes
Fighting to cling on
Tusker slips from the edge of consciousness
and he drops
blanketed in booming silence
He is fallen
In the time it takes a wasp to sting
[or it may have been the time needed
to raise a universe]
awakening floods
from every part of Tusker's being
The bubble is burst _______ and Tusker
is spilled from its trapping gut
He sits
Dumbed
Alone
Empty footprints
a clue to the lost time
kidnapped in the bubble
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