Endings & Beginnings
Ends are like beginnings
Except that nothing comes after
Abrupt like the crash of hurricane winds
On unboarded windows and tin roofs
Tornadoes on cars
Or gunshots into flesh,
And that has proven to be all
The end of a circle is its beginning
And a mobius has neither beginning nor end
But in concept they were always the same anyway
So it seems reasonable that they’d blend
Reality burns, falls, drops, and fades away
Destruction feeds on itself to further chaos,
And from chaos ultimately rises form; and form gives birth to creation;
Thereby destruction is one in the same
Both ends of the tape of existence; circle, line, and mobius
All that was, no, is, or someday will be
Beginnings and endings are escutcheons for the pained realness of reality
Imagining or creating a tangible end,
The it or the now becomes infinitely more valuable
Because it is finite.
© 2007 Eugene Aarons-Cooke