SAME

SAME

it’s, my birthday (again)
73rd in unbroken sequence
the one
I never thought i
would make

and talk of oneness
have a little here
shoved up
my sleeve
I just have to share
though, no doubt, you
have heard it
lived it
before

lived it in hearts
and diamonds
and now
spades

I sat in that library once
where we talked
joked
    years later
watched burn

you the stellar figure
of those days
light
   years ahead of me

and now some guy
publishing a short video
on social media
reminding us
all of us
you, me,
the rest of humanity
of those now
speedily forgotten
ancient truths
           coming back to haunt
via truth revealed
in particle
   accelerators

and though so far
so distant
   so difficult, so much
a problem
so doubly entangled in
all my entanglements

there were
are

these moments
of ocean in the droplet, of
everlasting
   connection

put quite simply
I have felt to my core

it’s my birthday again, next,
inshallah, will
be my
     seventy fourth

a number
which before, so long
ago
creapt up upon me

as well
I believe you know