adrift
the one time
we can claim
not to be adrift is
when we're ensconced
in the mother's womb.
once
that umbilical cord is
cut, we begin to drift.
from room to room
city to city
country to country
relationship to relationship
sometimes
we convince ourselves
that our drift is purposeful
in reality
we're rudderless
in existential ocean
and at the end of the allotted
three score and ten
or whatever fate had earmarked
we dissolve to dust or ashes
still adrift
we can claim
not to be adrift is
when we're ensconced
in the mother's womb.
once
that umbilical cord is
cut, we begin to drift.
from room to room
city to city
country to country
relationship to relationship
sometimes
we convince ourselves
that our drift is purposeful
in reality
we're rudderless
in existential ocean
and at the end of the allotted
three score and ten
or whatever fate had earmarked
we dissolve to dust or ashes
still adrift
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