Unknowing

this upscale retirees' resort
       gives him a magnificent view
                of sunrises and of sunsets,

of tides that ebb and flow;
       but these have not made him
               ponder, as anyone charmed

by Nature might, on why he has
      been freely given this one life, 
              as all others also have been,

for reasons never apparent,
      for purposes neither known
             nor slightly knowable at all.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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