Flung  
flailing about aimlessly
dancing like an autumn wind
switching back and forth in urgent gusts
we
like leaves on water bend with the flow
no choice
to go against is futile
shortens life
makes hard the path we tread
from birth to death

in a breath it is done
over
past
in a gale of dimension
we twist and turn
plunge and surface
eels of existence
on a solid stone planet of fire

gaunt shadows give night
or people the shape of silence
with jagged forms
that cut our psyches
squeeze us through the mangel of time
onto the plates that comprise the whole
small beings in a vast universe

Margaret Ann Waddicor 30th December 2015