Sunday, December 14, 2025

On being forty two



Look at the birds there
Doing bird things 
With other birds 
In the sky

It appears 
I have lost touch 
Doing human things 
With other humans
Right here

When I was younger 
I used to think 
Such disconnection 
The goal of the high solitary life

How learned learning appeared then
That I am rusty now On the easy unlearned things
Only to come to see — No portion of learning
Can soothe the daily day-to-day heart
Like the simple human things 
With other simple humans.


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