Poem: Even If
Dec. 9th, 2010 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
way2dawnI sat down to write this poem intending to talk about Mukuro and Chrome and Spade from KHR!, but this ended up being about a future Awakenings fic again. Funny, how the brain works.
Even If
It's hard to tell
where everything intersects,
where the past ends
and the future begins,
the near-infinite and
crystalized,
fired in ovens of
experience,
which is really the only way
that anything sticks.
You can say yes,
or no,
or something in-between,
blurred but not
indistinct.
It's easy to point and say,
after,
that "this was wrong",
or,
"this was right",
though that doesn't help in
present tense,
but that's to be expected
because that's not
what it's for.
I think I've come to the
conclusion
where I can
hold up my hand and say,
"the present flows to the past
just as much as
the past flows to the present,
and neither one
precludes the other
from being just as true",
and know what that means,
or one definition,
at least.
It's just that
the space of the maybe
is wider than I'd thought it was
before everything else
got in and out of the way,
and that still means something,
even if that's the only thing.
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Recommended Listening:
Changes - Sarah McLachlan
River Understands Simon - Firefly
Temptation - Moby
I think this is a sequel - as much as anything is - to Obligations and Future. It's partly talking about the same conversation, I guess, but with a slightly different context. I've been thinking about commissioning someone to do a manga page or two for that scene for me.
Even If
It's hard to tell
where everything intersects,
where the past ends
and the future begins,
the near-infinite and
crystalized,
fired in ovens of
experience,
which is really the only way
that anything sticks.
You can say yes,
or no,
or something in-between,
blurred but not
indistinct.
It's easy to point and say,
after,
that "this was wrong",
or,
"this was right",
though that doesn't help in
present tense,
but that's to be expected
because that's not
what it's for.
I think I've come to the
conclusion
where I can
hold up my hand and say,
"the present flows to the past
just as much as
the past flows to the present,
and neither one
precludes the other
from being just as true",
and know what that means,
or one definition,
at least.
It's just that
the space of the maybe
is wider than I'd thought it was
before everything else
got in and out of the way,
and that still means something,
even if that's the only thing.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Recommended Listening:
Changes - Sarah McLachlan
River Understands Simon - Firefly
Temptation - Moby
I think this is a sequel - as much as anything is - to Obligations and Future. It's partly talking about the same conversation, I guess, but with a slightly different context. I've been thinking about commissioning someone to do a manga page or two for that scene for me.
