I want

C o n t i n u i t y

I want

To stream consciousness

Through sleep and while awake

Through life and death

I want to know

I am the same today as yesterday

Even through inevitable change

I want to watch the leaves

As they shiver in the wind

And to look at grey bark

Knowing how it would feel

Beneath a winter’s pale sun

Without ever touching it

That the switch gets turned off

And these things just stop…

This is unfathomable.