eventide

reason to

good for something
and unlike the young mother
you never know
or understand
with any clarity
how strange
the relationship with
that which you find
and that which you can
manage to get
yourself to do
on a daily
or nearly daily
basis and
feel good about
choosing and
making that choice
may essentially be
just as well made
through any arbitrary process
or unnamed criteria which
even to yourself
seem somewhat
if not totally
indefensible
as though
any other analytical system
in the search of
an ideal which
a more normal person
might choose as
something someone
tells them makes
sense as
the basis of
a life which
seems to have
something which
like the young mother
you will never know
or understand