how much closer
to this earth
can you become today
how much further
have we wandered
to keep the end away
how much nearer is our life
than we can ever say
that the breathing in
and breathing out
is willing to purvey
so in keeping
with the sleeping
that we tend to do through life
have we caused so much weeping
so much struggle
so much strife
which has bound us more
to not exist
to bide our time
and wait
instead of embracing fully life
and trusting in our fate