If You
If You
If you watch the people in your life
with a magnifying glass
how much of their time would be useless gas;
precious to them
but inexplicable to others,
granted that molecules permeate most
that otherwise smothers.
If you watch yourself with a telescope
how easily would you cope
if you knew your poetry
sucked? And, for it, there was no hope!
What would you do if the lenses bore into you,
revealing the one beyond the skin and bone;
separate from house and home:
who are you,
what do you do,
how will the world define you?
It's not a quiz or spelling test;
it's not a race,
or something to get off one's chest;
it's a question of metaphysics,
most profound
and not really necessary to be answered
by word or sound.
But it will be answered
in your story
each of you
in your glory;
all abound, all abound
(copyright 2009)
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