What is that feeling when ... 
when not what is seen 
but what is felt 
is not only not felt 
by others, 
but what has 
provoked these feelings, 
that thing seen 
and so deeply, 
soul absorbingly 
appreciated, 
is now dying, 
disappearing, 
evaporating, 
never ... never 
to be seen and felt 
with such color 
and flavor 
of emotion 
ever again?
  
Is it not the thing 
that is dying, 
but we, 
we ourselves, 
become chillingly aware 
of our ultimate 
aloneness, 
our unavoidable 
disjunction 
from what must 
have been an 
hallucination 
of a sharable 
concreteness 
to what we 
have always 
believed to be 
reality?
  
And if that is so, 
... what now 
is the point?
  
I don’t know ... 
I don’t know.
  
Maybe?  ... Maybe, 
share what we can, 
when we can, 
with whom we can? 
In hopes that 
if we do, 
beauty itself, 
along with 
all the pause making 
feelings it inspires, 
might not die 
and disappear, 
as those things 
we believe 
to be beautiful, 
themselves, fade 
into nothingness?
  
I don’t know ... 
I don’t know. 
But one can, 
I suppose, 
hope 
that it is so.
  
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 Wednesday, July 27th, 2016  Bridgman  MI  USA 
 
   
 
 
 
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