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considering the
seed star
or the big bang might have been a murmur
was
that really it to begin?
one
doubts this
the
scale may be grand
but
who was it heard
this
first forest grow?
if
there are fifteen billion years
why
not fifteen billion more?
so
many first things were never beginnings
so
many beginnings weren't first
like
cutting teeth
there
was bone before that
the
sea is flat from a storm before
what
you held in your hand sets free
sets
off
but
the journey is never really beginning
because
there's a road to show
where
feet have been already
if
that metaphor will not suit
consider
the image given
consider
the idea brought
this
life of reciting the self
the
words where they have always been
and
the world was a clock spun on
if
difference is just that
then
how
was it, is it, to begin?
first
death I die will be an instance
unique,
but I know, only to me
so
much open to discussion
and
yet no second chance
though
scope for planning's limited
nevertheless
there's an imperative
to
try to get it right
Yes, imperative...
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