now I must start all over again


as if cursing the universe

would changes the laws of being


and satisfy the puny egos

we launch against the cosmos churning


of matter and energy that force and manifest

the powers of creation that sign us


with our responsibility to adhere and conform

and be funnels for this power


while each of us are consumed in these processes

and any notion of power is subsumed in the grief


of our misalignment and even as we pass from our forms

our forms reconstitute in the very actuality we grieve


starting all over as if anything of our hope mattered






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