My wish for your New Year – When days bring you anxiety, complexity, uncertainty or existential fear, may you have the wherewithal to take a step back, look around, take a deep breath and look around you at the miraculous impossibility of existence. To quote my new favorite show (The Wilds available on Amazon Prime) – “God don’t do ugly.”

Shadows stroll at Sunset May 2019

My lifecycle is an atom 
in the lifecycle of the
present, an atom 
in the lifecycle of the
 past, an atom in the lifecycle 
of humanity. 

And humanity -
an atom in the ecosystem 
Of earth -
A collection of mutations
Of mutations
Of mutations
That created tools
Lewd artwork
And modern architecture.

Does this make us miraculous?
Or sacrilegious.
When compared with the 
Majesty of existence?

Creation begins again with the dawning
 of a new day
Maybe we are like the deer population 
The dark ages
After every civilization
Deemed great. 
Maybe us dying is just another - 
Another end
To the peak 
Before the fall. 
A repeated Tower of Babel. 
Will we never learn?
To stop reaching for the heavens 
Just to get knocked back down. 
…
Shadows stroll at sunset
Along the blackened sand
Seagulls stand at attention
On guard
Or maybe reverence. 
As the sun relinquishes His throne