uncertainty and his accomplices

everything happens

up and over and across and inside us

it placates you for a moment now and then

with a quiet wind sweeping the alleys of your skull but too soon

or nearly too late

it grabs you by the umbilical cord

and swings you out into the vast beyond

where you are blind

and icicles grow like stalactites

in your marrow.

above all

you fear being alone

:andyouare:

above all

you fear being forgotten

so with your last frozen swallow of oxygen

you will start a riot

you will demolish an empire

you will shout your love

you will do it,

all you ever threatened yourself to do

in what seems to be

your final moment

and it won't be too late

everything everything everything

will

SNAP!

bring you back

for another indefinite period

of hollow breezes

when you feel in control

and you

can

breathe

and you

can

laugh

and you may even forget

why it was

you used to tear your pillow

with knifing sobs

and you will be happy in this moment.

but don't forget

don't abandon

the

things

you

know

inside and around and under and through us

everything happens.