I wonder what a bird thinks during a heavy downpour I wonder what the world will become I wonder why my past is too dark to see I wonder why my body felt so heavy this morning I wonder if I’ll ever know where I came from, and where I’m going I wonder how that annoying cricket got inside I wonder why life is hard and wonderful and untradeable I wonder how my life will end I wonder where love goes when it leaves I wonder if a tree feels suffering I wonder wh

birdsong, a morning memory now the ants have punched out, sidewalk cleaning done for the day everyone and everything is already under cover as the sun swings higher I stop for a second, pull a breath halfway through my oven silent walk late morning here is how many think of the desert lone cactus with tumbleweeds endless windswept sand and a searing sun baking a skull with open jaws, showing a horrible end I yell to my walking friend across the street don’t fall!

life vs life is how it’s set up, built into every creature and every moment, survive and if cornered, fight or run for your life and then there’s us, sometimes angry chimpanzees who raid to kill and eat other’s meat other times, share fruit and groom one another with utmost care, totally at peace God or whoever did this arranging, it would have been nice to blend more love into the life of man or maybe just left out the sharp teeth and hateful appetites maybe as v