The experts are quite clear
about talking in absolutes.
They say
the matter we encounter
and the energy feel
is just half
of a conversation
we were not meant
to overhear.
*
Let's face it. Relationships
have always been a gamble.
And what is a gambler—
if not a little unstable?
Like a blip
in a machine, he thinks
he is special;
he thinks
he alone can read
the clutter of chips on the table.
Just the same way,
we seem to think
that luck
can be stacked;
we recall
how we happened to win
the jackpot once,
and we honestly believe
that the past
makes comebacks.
*
For eons, the pious moon
has only been showing us one
of its faces.
What on earth are we
supposed to take
from that?
It must not be safe yet
to be ourselves.
