Poem: I am dust

 

Essentially

I am dust

as are you-

So are the particles,

fragmentations of light and space,

cosmic garbage,

al that is not;

In that we are one

you and I

with the cosmos,

the orderly chaos of existence

are we,

the best and worst of all that is Miniscule;

I laugh at my own insignificance

as should you,

Yet, somehow, I feel too,

that something there is that laughs not at our

dustiness-

Perhaps, the Dust Collector? 

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* From A Sad Piper, 1994