Enigmas
by Odin Roark

What of Those…

from childhood to adulthood,
including the determined to reverse engineer adolescence,
hoping for delusional youthdom
to sustain who they are,
perhaps forgetting
there comes a time
when the death
of ideals,
of virtues,
of dreams,
need pass onto their next iteration.

What of That…

which serves as tools and nourishment
for the rational beings
to use and abuse,
to fend and consume,
to eventually exhaust and cast aside .

What of It…

that heart of all that makes possible Those and That,
the It we sometimes call
the spirit,
the inner being,
man’s sentient core.

Is not this essence of then,
now, and tomorrow
entitled to restart?

And yet…

so much of mankind lords over
some supernatural prerogative,
convinced of…

Meanwhile,
with inherent wisdom,
the spring flower nods to the sun,
to the rain,
to the hand about to pick it.