Dec. 9, 2019, 4:55 a.m.

task <> fancy

wonder systems

count sixty ticks to return
in the presence of time.
task and fancy have each their frenzies
their drowning flails of thought
where both forget we are only
water, an arising formed
from its awareness of rising.
so do not push the flow nor go
with it; grab nor release
control; to be all trembling
surface, all skin, a self
made only of relation
like how a butterfly's colors
are ornate invitations of light,
a butterfly whose many-miled
migrations and stumbling flutters
each need the other to survive,
like patience
and wonder
like striving
and delight

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