Trying To Alter The Course Of The River Of Thought
The Code is calling to my attention again,
The code of Life, that is -
I am struggling to decode.
I get the noun 'Time',
But what is the surrounding grammar?
Worry about the swift passing of time?
Don't worry about it......Relax?
I'll go with: Don't worry about it
As that is more consonant with
Previous passages.
But how? how to not worry in
The face of awareness
Of all of these, our troubles?
-Simple. There is no way
-Without the greatest of
-Paradigm Shifts.
Splendid! How helpful!
What shift would that be?
Pray tell, Know-it-all.
-Well, turn the whole thing
-Over on its head.
-If it is Death that frightens,
-Make Death itself the goal
-Make it the proud day
-You finally pen
-'The End' to your novel.
-If 'cruelty' scares you
-(This is truly a hard one) ,
-Make it very, very abstract.....
-Make it but a wrong turn
-In the Maze of the brain
-As we all seek
-A way out.
-If separation makes you cry;
-Mother from child,
-Child from mother:
(See, there's no way.....just no way....
To make this plunge, a floating!)
-Not so. If we're not the mother....
-But only dearly loved 'babysitter'....
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poem by Jan Freundschuh
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