Jan 2020
THE BEGINNING AND THE END
How do we know the beginning
from the end? How do we de-
marcate one from the other? Are
they not, in fact, a continuum?
Is it possible there is no beginning
and there is no end? Is it not true
that the end is often also the begin-
ning? Is not the differentiation we
make between the two often arbitrary,
capricious? When do we begin and
and when do we end? What is the
most propitious moment and mark
to do one or the other, or both? Is
it better to ascertain what we deem
to be the middle ground and hold
that position, or are all points illusory?
How do we ever know for sure
where the beginning begins and
the end ends? Maybe it is simply
better, in the beginning and in the
end, just to be.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
How do we know the beginning
from the end? How do we de-
marcate one from the other? Are
they not, in fact, a continuum?
Is it possible there is no beginning
and there is no end? Is it not true
that the end is often also the begin-
ning? Is not the differentiation we
make between the two often arbitrary,
capricious? When do we begin and
and when do we end? What is the
most propitious moment and mark
to do one or the other, or both? Is
it better to ascertain what we deem
to be the middle ground and hold
that position, or are all points illusory?
How do we ever know for sure
where the beginning begins and
the end ends? Maybe it is simply
better, in the beginning and in the
end, just to be.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and human-rights advocate for his entire adult life. He recently finished his first novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.
