Thursday, June 13, 2024

Impermanence June 11, 2012

 

 I keep thinking of her

As a humming bird,

So small, she might be

Merely a mosquito,

Touching and being touched

By the depths of the flowers

She must reach into

In order to collect

The nectar she needs

To survive,

Never really landing,

Just hovering,

Wings in constant motion,

Condemned to a life

Of impermanence,

No schedule of

Appointments,

Just close encounters,

She looking for

True love deep down

In the middle of

Those flowers

She penetrates,

Unable to remain long,

Nothing in any of them

To contain her,

Lucky perhaps

Since any flower

Might turn out

To be

A Venus flytrap,

Better free

And impermanent,

Then contained

Unwillingly.


email to Al Sullivan

No comments:

Post a Comment