this is never what I think it is
and so I have to stop
thinking
that it is anything
at all
letting the world
revolve
letting life go out
into the void
all these things
separate and safe
what I know or think I know
comes from a time and place
when I might know something
rather than the
vacancy
that exists now
planets in orbits
distinctly
divorced from each other
with no more
influence
than the remote gravity
we feel during those
rare alignments
this orbit bringing
that planet
to the same space around the sun
we both must orbit
we glimpse the surface of things
not the content
make judgments based on
what we assume not what is
wanting things to be
what we fantasize
like those old visions
people once had of
life
on other planets
a reality that does
not pan out
once we land on the surface
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