sit and ponder life
in all its
intricacies
as i do …

we presage another
or we follow
we know not which

we remain ignorant
of all that truly mattered to those who brought us
despite all we do to learn
remember
understand

we think it a defect, but
it is in reality liberating.

they gave to us the gift
the gift not of life, but
the gift of living without restraint