A point of being

Charles Fields II 1955 (Fort Bragg, NC)



We coexist
in different dimensions

Moving between by will
and circumstance

Manifestations of being…

Which rise to heights,
descend to depths

Sometimes far
beyond our comprehension

What we fulfill in the shifting balance
of our understanding

Defines our sense of happiness
Our relationships to

and with others play pivotal roles
in every facet of our lives

Material aspects
of human nature and being

Are strongly influenced
by cyclical events of historical recordance

and not so much so and so,
we dance.

Becoming aligned
in which area of focus

we feel ourselves
most practically inclined

Looking to what little
of our human history

Can be said to be
practically reported

A wealth of material
which may allow us to infer

A far greater sense of being
exists than our awareness of ourselves.

Spiritual entities exist,
besides us

Your choice
believe it or not

What humanity there is
Rests upon this Fact

No one leaves
this world

Intact

C2


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Written on 2015

Submitted by Charles2 on September 16, 2023

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Scheme AB XC D XX XX XD EX XX XD XB XC FE GF HI IX HX DG AE XX XX XX X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,015
Words 214
Stanzas 22
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1

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