Among other things May 20 2010

Among other things

You think it was then
that everything fell together, and you found your lost self

You think it was that touch,
the wordlessness that made it all seem right

Or it just might be in words,
a single line that made sense, and gave meaning to it all

probably some 'thing' else
among other things
you know it best

but, you know it's not about what you saw
or what you did
or what you felt
or what you made someone feel

not even here
in this curiosity
to know
for what its worth
to live
to not die
to know what it all is

it doesn't matter if someone died
or someone lived

or whether you raised the *'overwhelming question'
snowballing towards it

because
there is only one thing
the tight rope
without gravity
beneath it

where hungry stomachs
converge
with hungry minds

and all that hunger hangs like a question mark
round your neck

and you just freefall
clutching onto

the thread
that connects it all

knowing
that is not it
*That is not it, at all.





[** Alludes to The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock - T.S.Eliot]