Tuesday, September 23, 2025

No one knows May 1, 1989

 

 

How is it the goose lifts from the pond,

Or the child to walk upon two feet,

Or the bird first to take to wing?

No one knows.

 

How is it if that we trust these wings,

These bones and feathers,

To rise from bed, to open eyes,

To know the sun will rise,

No one knows.

 

How do we trust this world of ours

To keep its flowers or bring its green

Spring coming after every winter

Without fail?

No one knows.

 

How is it I met you, A book of words,

Sent to no one, for no reason,

A bottle sailing with secret message

Only to land on your shore,

No one knows.

 

Faith is not a word a goose would use,

But feels it as well,

To know that bones will hold wings together

For thousands of miles of flight,

To come and go, from where,

No one knows.

 

How can you doubt the years ahead,

When the world has gone through so much

Just to bring us together,

Why wasted those secret energies,

Even if it should all end tomorrow,

Why spend the spirits on such foolish thought,

If fate does not think us so trivial,

No one knows.

 

But when I life my wings to fly,

Or arms to hold you,

I know it is forever, it is for the

Time beyond winer, as well as

Before, that time in the endless series

Of times at which we continually meet,

This life, the next life and the life after that

No one knows.

 


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