The Poetry of Life

It is those primary rituals
that give purpose and meaning
to our lives, the need to know and
to give love, the need to be together
with the loved, to forge a scaffold of
examined truths and in this manner
we are true to ourselves, to the
need to love and be loved, for
sacrificing individuality to a 
joined communion of trust and
belonging, fiercer than bonds
of blood and clan. We ritualize
shared moments of sublime devotion
and pedestrian daily rites to the
passage of time on scales large
and small. We look back with
fondness at who we were, raw and
new to life, contemplating now the 
near future through the lens of the
learned and ripened present.