You know what I keep
wondering about
How most of us
understand that life is a transient thing
A flash of shimmering,
golden fish swimming rapidly with the stream
That ‘This too shall
pass’ applies to almost everything
That any glimmer of
permanence is a magician’s illusion
That we must eat
change for breakfast-lunch-dinner (whether we like it or not)
For when we are elated,
there’s a little part of us that knows it’ll be over too soon
For when we can’t stop
crying in the shower, we are telling ourselves the pain will end soon
For when we raged against someone enough to want to kill them, even that dissolved all too soon
Yet
We seem unable to see that
love (in any of its human forms) is no different
That ‘This too shall
pass’ applies to OHHHH EVERYTHING
Instead, we latch on
to ‘Forever’s and 'Forevermore's and ‘Ever-After’s
You see, I wish I knew
it then
That last time I
dropped you off at the airport… I wish I knew it then
Not because it was
the last time I saw you (it wasn't)
But because it was the
last time I couldn’t wait to see you again