is it stars or fear of the knowing stars
that gaze upon us and know us because
at one time they were us. it is us: not us
who makes the words we echo tremble
we both know they have no need of us
we are simple vessels, tools, conduits
to those that were before us and those
who will return after us. it is unity we
seek: simple matter of fact unity. sea
or sky or stars. shadows that falter, hot
coffee or tea or lemonade at a bench in
a long awaited harbor we had promised
to meet someday. it is all this and more
and especially fear. it feeds the temporal
awakens the neediness of even the buda
if we laid down and not move what could we achieve my friend across the sea
