Kit Kelen #1016 - book of numbers

1016
book of numbers 


sometimes only counting
backwards forwards
a way to sleep
a way to know where
how much you are
and yet to go
how low you can fall

this street
and you were born
book of numbers
your code

so  many spokes
and revolutions

sheep creep
numbering the hills
to conquer

proud of how far
scared too
all climbing

horizon after horizon
retreating as we come
book of numbers

I remember finding out
that they went on forever –
past seas, mountains
sands and stars

past anything to hold
backwards as well

you could count yourself out of this world
and then would you be gone?

among the numberless
these variable signs
the fuel remaining

and better than x is

think of the uses to which they are put
the cure was by this means expressed
and how much milk?
the acres per cow
the inch by mile

time since
and time until

so much alone
among them
when they are ever more