Unbecoming

We've grown smaller.

Each of us together apart.
explode across eons and continents,
despite floods and droughts
and blooded horrors

DNA predicts nothing of the rain
or of our need for it always.

Nor does it know ubiquitous sunlight,
that but what is cannot be without.

So they map and explain it,
those who know better than i,
finding always less possibility
as if the universe means less

Infinitely.

We've shrunk.

All of us, individually.
To fit within televisions,
facebooks, sidewalks, classes,
malls, tents, cubicles, cars ...
each a virtual self

Identically.

We've discovered

Electrons flow regardlessly
the only insubstance certain
of remaining smaller than its parent
parenting smaller still.

While wars and heated storms
rage greater so as to deny
supposed quantum indifference.

They calculate and speculate,
those who know better than i,
finding ever smaller certainty
declaring not living everything's all

Eternally.

Unlearning

The invisible cannot be seen, says the sage.

The seen cannot be invisible, says the sage.

Thus seeing the invisible and not-seeing the visible,

These make all living creatures perceptive, says the sage.

When the invisible can be seen by all, does it become visible?

When the visible cannot be seen by anyone, does it vanish?


So much confusion!


That which appears was once invisible.

That which vanishes was once visible.

Only that which is never visible and that which never vanishes

Endures.

This is the mystery that shapes all things.