This is Not a Poem About Life

this is a poem about life

this is not a poem about death

this is a failure to avoid something

by demanding that it disappear

the harder I push

the more firmly I’m pulled

my creation is its own negation

this is a poem about the process

of sifting, falling, tumbling, crawling

down and through

the learning process we call life

if i take something away

i’ve created an emptiness

but if I put something back

i’ve simply transferred space

it’s impossible to create a poem about life

because once the words out

they cease to be accurate

life is the process before the words are released

the moment right before

you and I first met