Saturday, December 27, 2008

Conversation About Broken Things

Sun's gone down and I am useless for anything
except to mope

That's what went wrong with theism:
"Light has come into the world"
and no matter how hard one tries
gravity compels us in one direction

One is not lost, but always losing
one is making lists and losing these too

I accept what could be (and the world
shrinks around me as it exhales)
and look through one hole into another
-- leave it alone

This is the way across; it is
the only way across

What's fallen
is beautiful too
a prescription for silence

One wouldn't have it any other way:
   first standing
   on one foot
   then
   the other