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
poems 2 die for 