Love and (The logic of) Possibility
When mishaps and missteps lead
Sweet patterns can still shape
So that a sweet harmony of emotion
Forms strong and unbidden
Calling logic and reason to fall
Curiously into step
Crystal clear stays misty mysterious
Notations still fail to tell
Whence I come from nor where I go
And why I pause
Now wide eyed, childlike, still aghast
Breath held in and caught
In wondering deepest awe
Even as this late evening sun
Promises a slower setting light
Then, atop this tired being
A quietest cowrie in this head drops
A hollow tap, echoes in the old calabash
(Maybe this I can claim as the starting moment of wisdom)
A most important discovery
The eureka that makes this none-sense
And the day’s scratching thirst
Now refreshed and quenchingly clear
In these mysterious equations of life
Love is the only logical reason
Repeating each time the same
Yet each time recurring never
So I may see I'm only here now
Because there is a reason that you are
The possibility that separated musings
Can fall clear and drop silently into one another
And our deepest reasons mysteriously
This day distil ever more deeply into each other
Becoming true together:
Good and understood justifications
Standing proudly now enjoined in love
Entwined and bonded
Beyond solitude
And beyond logic