BACK AND FORTH
​when faced with force
May 14/2020
life has shaped me whether I perceive or admit it
or not
life will reshape me at will
whether I fight it
or not
it is already done
it is already done
the openness is only
​in how
There's been a lot of this kind of experience  and response among us humans lately
I suppose there's never been a time when we were essentially otherwise

I witness our running
in the path of waves that keep coming
​
I witness our running
I witness our running
our running ​back and forth

then we realize that the way out is in
we've got to fall into these bones
what's going on?
who am I?


this is so seriously fucked up
that you do not
want to take it
seriously 


a human being is amazing
they're miraculous
they're standing in front of you
what is the appropriate response?
the appropriate response is a question mark


we can put each other in boxes
and these are the good boxes
these are the bad boxes
these are the cool boxes
fuck it
​be fascinated
​
I say
I say
let's go 
this way

back and forth with it all
back and forth with it endlessly

breathed and streamed and stormed and rinsed and landed
only to be picked up and pulled out and put down again

do you know where the next blast will come from?
​do you know the moment of the next quake?
because I most certainly do not

and you know what
if you insist on claiming you know and know and know and know and know and know
I am prepared to see that you lie

back and forth babies
back and forth  and
back and forth

I witness our trouble
I witness our confoundment
I witness our distress
​
I witness our great, great need