Complete

The entirety

Of everything

Completely

Overshadows

Hope

As I knew it

A small growing birth of light

Is now just a ray of darkness

Mean

And stubborn

No holding space for others

When the hope

Is to worship

Oneself

Confused

More confused today

Than yesterday

Wait until the light

Is gone

And the room is dark

Then real confusion

Sets in

The time and place

When all is unknown

And every difficulty

Must be faced

Vast

The vast nature

Of the world

Seems to override

My own ability

To understand

What is happening

Across the land

From ocean to ocean

The wide expanse

Is contracting

Into one confusing

Mess

Melt

The melt

On a 100 degree day

In Northern Michigan

In the fall

Unlike any other

Before

The heat bears

Witness to the

Feelings we have

That life is not quite

Normal

These days

Seafarer

Upon the sea

A life lived

Over the water

Of a world

Made up of the

Liquid of life

To be a soul at large

Is to be a large soul

On the oceans of life

To make a life

In a ship

Over the waters