imagine the sun
without light and spreading ashes
imagine the moon
with the light of the fire
and escalating furnace warming
imagine the ocean
without water and shedding the snowflakes
imagine the world
without anything and anyone
imagine the sky
without color and showing rainbow
imagine the space
without emptiness
imagine the galaxy
without centripetal-gravitational power
or with the alien mightiest more than human
imagine the self
without any blood, flesh, intestine, entrails
as the mightiest unseen wind
imagine death as life
and life as death
or life and death are a dream of human thinking
imagine if ancient someone named
the fire as water,
the water as soil,
the soil as wind,
the wind as space
the space as time
the time as endless human thinking
what would be then
nothing, nothingness would be the result
but like present the volatility of mind would kill
the straight forward common sense
I cannot tell you to follow all blindly
but do not imagine all as the criterion of truth
05.03.2020 Chattogram
Is there anything of
unappreciated significance
that is used more than I ?
I've got to be the "where's waldo"
of precocious punctuation!
piled atop baby j's and baby i's
balanced under interrogatory swirls ?
and exclamatory lines !
and others of my kind : ; !
Also, laid down with more of the same ...
Accountants and mathematicians
have rued my misplacement,
yet though I'm remarkably plain,
the simple truth is, when I say it's done,
it's done......PERIOD!
Without there being a God,
we could never question his existence
Through the shadows of the interrogatory
divinity shines
Do apes question, do birds question,
do flowers question—Aquinas asked
Only through the act of self-reflection
—is the Creator truly known
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2018)