No One Way

Mideast smoke may never clear.
Forces know inversion.
Custer set out to eliminate Crazy Horse,
only to find killers get killed too.

Thus…

Fate opts to continue as
one’s long term landlord,
mending hurt feelings,
at times.
Repairing aging plumbing,
at times.
Providing odd company,
at times.

Then…

As consciousness takes up arms,
destiny is challenged.
The enigmatic and reality forces face each other
in life’s enormous battlefield of experience.

Decision time

Each turns,
moves away from each other,
as if returning to their respective,
exhausted, and impoverished armies.

And…

Not unlike unavoidable gravity
making two planets pass
out of conjunction,
two political adversaries,
unwilling to note the other’s existence,
determine to keep their own habitual stride,
colliding together and parting
like mercury beneath one’s fingertips.

Fate and consciousness—
being but parts of the whole,
each with different directional pull,
each with a varying true north reading,
each a part of one’s complete story—
remain the inevitable unresolved conundrum
believing there’s no one way.