Saturday, March 11, 2017

The Meaning of Life


As hatchling turtles cross the sands of time,
safely reaching the eternity of the sea,
as the child swings higher, and is lowered by
the force of gravity, higher, lower, repeat,
as the car motors down the street,
its speed excels and slows with pressure to the
peddles applied by the feet,
as the tree grows, the wind blows, the rain
freezes turning into sleet,
one revolution of Earth, and the day ends replete,
as the drum synchronizes rhythmically to a
cadence of the heartbeat…

Heat...
Greet...
Treat…
Sheet...

As time passes, the monotony of this rhyming
is destined to retreat
as at last (and it was bound to happen inevitably),
the boy and girl finally meet,
and the application of this preposterous amalgamation,
thank God, is nearly complete.

This exercise of mine should have ended where
it began, when the hatchling turtles
made it safely to the eternity of the sea.
And, I trust you and I agree, that is truly
a story worth repeating, speaking existentially.


Chris Hanch 3-11-17 

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