Friday, January 12, 2018

A Relative Point









What is time?
Is it the moon’s hallucinogenic time
of the unicorn?

Or, is it the sun’s sobering time of radiant clarity
that shuns bleary eyes away
from yesterday’s optimisms?

Is it the relative notions of time and space?
Where minutes become hours and towers of hours
Transcending into days spanning more and more years
That then morph into scattered forgotten thoughts
Or misplaced shattered dreams
At life’s end,
As age takes its full measure and payment
Of a full life-
Lived with curious fantasy
Or mired on the stark streets of rue?

Either way, the only point of reference that matters
is the one that is written on the ignoble grave marker:
Stating a beginning date and the inevitable end date;
Where only a name remains to be remembered,
That is, if there is anyone left to light those candles of memory …
perhaps, with an appellation;
maybe, a final self-attribution:
saying, “I am not here any longer.  I am out there in the woods - - yonder”

Matters not, for the trees will whisper the way there
As the leaves explain how breezes can become winds
And how winds can turn into raging storms of destruction;
Leaving seeds strewn across the landscape
Scattered amongst the standings of the old forest
Where seeds can aspire to be more than ripen ovules
While the Mother Tree evokes a sense of community
And a place of comity among the old trees;
That no longer identify with the young diminutive seeds.
However, the songs of the progeny will play on to celebrate
that the grains will grow into the reasons for Mother’s gains
while wondering,
“Why vapid germination without savory temptation?”

When do the degrees of time gather enough space?
Thus, becoming a relative position in the universe;
Thereby also establishing the disposition
that the sun’s juxtaposition
Is where it sets - a past;
Or lies - a future;
And, at this moment, clarity and consciousness
Being the only truth that is – is NOW.
Standing neither as an egoic day
Nor a tortured night
But rather more –
A transcendent self.











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