05-01-2017, 06:30 AM
Unendings
Does day end with a sunset
or the next day’s dawning -
with sleep, or with awaking?
Is daytime truly done before
its conflicts play out unexpected,
dramatized in dreaming?
Do friendships end with death,
renunciation, harsh unfriendings -
or linger tepid, cold, or hot
in background climates
for each next befriending?
Each day begins somewhere
by dawning runny gray or bright -
but never fully ends;
each person marches on accompanied
by current, quick, and late
unceasing friends.
Does day end with a sunset
or the next day’s dawning -
with sleep, or with awaking?
Is daytime truly done before
its conflicts play out unexpected,
dramatized in dreaming?
Do friendships end with death,
renunciation, harsh unfriendings -
or linger tepid, cold, or hot
in background climates
for each next befriending?
Each day begins somewhere
by dawning runny gray or bright -
but never fully ends;
each person marches on accompanied
by current, quick, and late
unceasing friends.
Non-practicing atheist