Saturday, March 26, 2011

Full

Today the sky was blue but cloudy, the air was cold, clean, fresh. The sun beat down on everything, the earth continued to be alive. Wind pushed between buildings, trees, over the tops of hills and beneath cars. People didn't notice the outdoors, some accused their addictions of causing cancer. A tree branch fell in the mountains. A molecule of water dropped from a snowpack, into a stream, absorbed a pool, ran a tributary, joined a reservoir, drained a turbine, pushed a canal, spun a processing plant, sucked a pipeline, ran your tap, fell into your glass, gulped your mouth, followed your esophagus and wet your stomach joining your foodstuff and feeding your cells. Someone won big. Their rival lost and laughed with a heavy heart. Two fought for the last time, two fought for the first time. Someone kissed someone they loved, hopefully.

There was a fight and you watched it. But it was based on love.. because people just love each other, fully, intensely, strangely, imperfectly, drunkenly, rudely, selfishly, obsessively, ruinously, to their own ends. Nature exists without difference, without mercy.. but we feel mercy and difference, and it mixes us all up.. like there's some kind of answer we're trying to figure and everything that we do is a response to that belief, an answer that could exist if we just keep fighting long enough

Still I say

Situations change but people don't

So love what you can
Or get out

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