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Deep Ecology

One

In a world

A world

In one

In all

Unchanged

Ever changing

All things

Equal

Parts in a

Whole, a

Whole in

Parts

A world

Is a whole

A life

Is a world

In one

In all

All is

One is

Life

All is one is life.

Substance

Our bodies are more space than mass

So modern science has shown

Both more and less than stuff so crass

As sinew, blood and bone

So what is it we are, and who

Is it that we could be

If everything we thought we knew

Was empty, just like me?

Strings

How do we deal with loss?

Things connect to us

Or we connect to things

With strings that wind

We twine ourselves in them –

They give us support

They hamper our movements

And when they sever

Do we fall to the ground

Or fly away?

Either, Or,

When they tear away

They rend bits of us

Away with them too

And if this thing is love

Strings of steely love

Sometimes we never find

Those bits that came off

And we travel through life

With holes in our skin

Clear through to our hearts

What will you take from me?

What parts of me will be gone

When you are gone?

I will make an accounting of myself

Now, when you are breathing

Softly in my ear

So that tomorrow

I will remember how it was

When there was more of me here.