I'm grateful for human alchemy
enraptured epistemologies
stochastic, probabilistic, ontic
young & wild reasoned child
now through a looking glass
recursive reflections
knowing in part
the fullness of perfection pulls
forked at each branching of being
drink the witches' brew
rich, bitter, melodic, painful
fear I must let it pass through
only a human can endure
sacrifice present for future
salicylic skinning of surrender
peeling layer by layer
preferences revealed
trade-offs in market
exchange changes
keep keeping on playing the ultimate game
cancelled taken out of play absorbed
strong non-ergodic death of fame
some risks never to take
temporal not ditto the spatial
sequence matters over time
I lick, I shoot before I suck
on the lime
irreversible irredeemable
each moment happens but once
what to make of happenstance?
each wound, each heartache, each joy, ecstasy
assimilated over time
scars become who I am
rings in a tree's trunk
licentious lotus born in the muck
to weigh what will happen
rests on my continuity
not with others' symmetry
perpetual paradox of poetry
antidote to deadly artificiality
find, express one's voice
love is that which enables choice.