in a game
of chess:
do you see before you
a contest
to be won,
or a problem
which intellect
and patience
may solve?
Wait—do not give us
your answer
just yet;
first, observe
for yourself how
all of the pieces
and moves
you could need
are already present—
just like
every word
you could speak
comes to mind pre-
invented.
*
This is not a matter
of black
verses white.
Ham and eggs
are black and white—things
you can taste
and touch
and relate to.
This
is a hitch
which is
altogether different.
Unless, of course,
you've just been
terribly impatient
with the time it takes
the light
by which you might
recognize
a self
to scream across
vacuums
of spacetime
and hit you.
