To live
is always convoluted
it constantly harms the so-called Self.
What a sloppy mess it is to live.
I am doing today
what I was appalled to see others doing a few days ago.
While I allow myself love and happiness
the world becomes ambiguous at the point of touching another
what my eyes see during the day will not revert to the
           anonymity of Nature

Born like mushrooms from the great earth
we walk on along our paths.
Beautiful lumps of flesh, slack lumps of flesh
different shapes placed over different masses –
allowing skin to blur the lines our eyes see
we see what is vulnerable, and know what is threatened