Friday, August 22, 2014

299.00 (F84.0)

i get angry when
i can't find my shoes
then i remember
he can't even tie his own.

money stresses me out
by never having enough
then i remember
he'll never have any to spend.

final exams nearly kill me
physics, biology, math.
then i remember
he's twenty and learning to write.

he keeps me grateful
and i'm blessed he's my brother
but i question the unfairness
of whether that is his destiny.

burning man

how comforting it is to know
my place on the cosmic scale,
a minutiae of the world, which
in turn is one of the universe.

no bigger than the spec of
stardust that exploded
and gave life to the stars
and galaxies - and me.

for if i know i am so small,
and so is the earth, sun,
milky way, galaxy cluster,
and possibly universe ...

then i am really no different
at all, just another speck
of stardust, after some fashion,
drifting through existence.