My life

Flees from uncertainty
Toward conclusion stumbling
Briefly into …

Awareness

A hiatus from oblivion spent
Celebrating

A gratifying, fragile
Impression-of-reality

Reflective ephemera

I am …
Self-consumed until
I am …
Consumed for
I am …
All
I am.

A domino,
As apt to falling
As being felled

Now,
I place myself in gaps

Adequate for the time

And poetry
Is something I merely ...
Have to do