Number Six - Karate

If we are Nature’s detour

To get to five great names

You are number six

Just neglected by these days

With all the confusion around

Hate, schedules, and possibilities

Under solar-system simulations

Your hesitations elegy

These are the last days

We will spend in this room

Another temporary shell

To help me protect you

On any ordinary night

A sip would last a song

But tonight you’re up, on your way out the door

In half as long