Imagine if people 
were simply were
like trees or
clouds or other 
things how beautiful 
they might be 
sadly they aren’t 
oh they were
at some point 
until they weren’t 
peace we’ve had 
peace we will 
when once again 
innocence and wonderment 
and the Unknowing 
replace the guilt 
and reasons and 
disappointments people are 

I don’t anything 
implies I do 
in fact everything 
when one says 
that they don’t 
they actually do 
that they can’t 
they certainly can 
that they won’t 
they likely will 
not therefore is
except with shame 

Words here
don’t mean 
words here
don’t describe 
words here
only hear
words here 
just listen 
words here 
never derive 

Is is
what remains 
after not
is sleeping 
Is is
not not
though is
includes not 
is is
just is 
being is
a simple 
is is

It is now 
and in this 
where I find
that my peace 
rests in silence 
being absent from 
not absent to
quiets what’s been 
what I knew 
as my humanity 
emotion makes not
one only hope 
but gives rise 
to one’s despair 
being absent from 
gives one an
unbridled compassion for 
everything that is 
that is not 
the paradox human