clearer, clearly clear

 “I can see clearly now the rain is gone.

I can see all obstacles in my way.
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind.
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day.
It's gonna be a bright (bright)
Bright (bright) sunshiny day.” (I Can See Clearly Now/Johnny Nash)

 

Okay, perhaps if I had to re-write the song, I might use the phrase I CAN SEE CLEARER NOW, or maybe even, I CAN TRY TO SEE A CLEARING NOW, and because I still suffer the pessimistic prose and pathos of an abused citizen, I might even have written, I KNOW I WANT TO SEE THE CLEARING, AND ACTUALLY IT MIGHT BE POSSIBLE TO DO SO! But to even imagine singing any song with the slightest bit of promise or purpose, is a strange sensation because what I am used to expressing has been a moan, a long guttural unfathomable grunt, and groan, a cry for help, a pleading, a baying at the moon!

 

There seems to be a new catchphrase, roaming the almost dystopian landscape, of an America reeling from being under siege, looking like the day after a Category 5 Hurricane, an F-5 Tornado, a 9.5 Earthquake. “Just Enough Of Us, For the Rest Of Us.” At first, I thought, “…hmm hokey, silly, an impotent irritant to make do, when nothing else can be done…” But I slept on that idea, and waited, on this 2^nd day of clearing, and attempts to see clearer, now, AND somehow, the phrase, “Just Enough Of Us, For the Rest Of Us,” resonated for me. If we have a chance to change, (not a complete makeover or a nip and tuck), but a revolving resolution of compassion, facts that matter, and lies called out, maybe, my cynicism can be contained, and change can take route! I do not know, nor understand the mechanics of that, but then again, we sent a satellite to the moons of Jupiter, so who knows!

 

I awoke, today, in no hurry to see if the world in which I live had burst, boiled into a brew of orange turd, I knew hate and fear and loathing still inhaled enough oxygen to keep me from breathing in deeply, but I also believed, that MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, “…gone were the dark clouds”, that, damn it, kept too many people blind!