SEQUENCES

You think 

you've got 

no place to go—but then, 

what could it mean 

to go anywhere 
"later?"

Leaving 

is as meaningless 

as coming in this 

present-tense, 

and the future 

is not a location 

in space. 

* 

You hear a robot voice saying 
"caution: step back," 

and, eager 

as you've always been

to harmonize a melody, 

you behave 

like all of the waves 

which comprise you 

and do exactly 

as you're told.

*

Often, you are struck 

with the relentlessness 

of the notion 

that something always 

must come next. 

You don't know 

what that something 

is, but 

if you squint just right 

with the eye 

in your mind, 

you can see 

a blurry text 

which takes 

the approximate shape 

of faith.