on the endless web.......Life

Every intention, interaction, motivation, every colour, every body, every action and reaction, every piece of physical reality and the thoughts that it engendered, every connection made, every nuanced moment of history and potentiality, every toothache and flagstone, every emotion and birth and banknote, every possible thing ever is woven into that limitless, sprawling web.

It is without beginning or end. It is complex to a degree that humbles the mind. 

It is a work of such beauty that my soul wept.....

I have danced with the spider.” 

― China Miéville, Perdido Street Station

i THOUGHT

I 

COULD 

PLAY

ALL BY MYSELF

ALONE

UNTOUCHED

DISCONNECTED

STOIC

AND

ISOLATED

it wasn't bad---kind of fun---didn't need or want or desire to 

know you or anyone else...

AHH....WHAT THE LIE i TOLD MYSELF

FOR 

WE ALL

SIT

ALL TOGETHER

ON THIS LITTLE WEB

WOVEN SO INTRICATELY

TOUCHING IN PLACES

INTERTWINING AND SPINNING AROUND

I LOOK AROUND

AND

SEE 

YOU 

AND 

YOU 

AND YOU

AND 

I THINK

NO WAY

GET OFF MY WEB

DON'T TOUCH ME

DON'T LOOK MY WAY

I'M JUST FINE 

SITTING HERE ALL BY MYSELF

....

THEN

WITHOUT 

SO MUCH 

AS A RHYME

OR RIDDLE

YOUR 

LITTLE STRAND 

TOUCHES MINE

AND

WE'RE 

STUCK TOGETHER

FOREVER

ME

PART OF YOU 

AND

ME 

SOMEHOW 

PART OF YOU

IN WAYS i 

CANNOT BEGIN TO 

FATHOM

ARTICULATE 

UNDERSTAND

CONNECTED

....

AND

I LOOK TO MY LEFT

AND

YOU

AND

RIGHT

AND

YOU AND ABOVE

AND YOU

....

AND

SUDDENLY

I REALIZE

HERE WE

ALL ARE

SITTING ON A 

TINY DELICATE WEB

pretending we don't see

don't know

don't need

each other

....

IT CAUSES MY WORLD TO MOVE ABOUT

BOBBLE UP AND DOWN

I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU

HAVEN'T INVITED YOU 

TO TOUCH MY LITTLE STRAND OF THE WORLD

BUT

YET

HERE YOU ARE

CAUSING ME TO BOBBLE ABOUT

CLING

TIE UP MY LITTLE ABODE

PROTECT MY LITTLE SPIDERLINGS 

BY WORKING AND WEAVING AND ENFORCING....

.....

i STOP

I WATCH

I SUDDENLY FEEL

FEEL THIS DANCE 

FEEL YOUR LITTLE HOP 

the way you BOBBLE MY WORLD

SENSE YOUR

FURY

YOUR JOSTLING IMPACT

FEEL 

WHAT 

YOU DO...

I STOP 

STOP

SCURRYING ABOUT

STOP WORRYING

AND

SUDDENLY

...

SUDDENLY

I AM ABLE 

TO 

FEEL

..

FEEL THE MOVEMENT 

OF THE 

DANCE 

CALLED LIFE

.....

AND

REALIZE

YOU 

ME

WE

...

WE ARE CONNECTED

AND

'IT'

'AIN'T '

TOO BAD!

ENJOY THE DAY

FRIDAY...

AND

BE A GREAT WEEKEND

BLESSINGS

THE RADICAL RAMBLER....