Coincidences
There are no coincidences. Everyone knows this.
All that occurs in this rain-washed, sky-shrouded world
Is aligned to the beat of a greater heart:
This expansive stretch of time,
Reaching out like the alphabet
From the Anthropocene to the Zeitgeist
Is ordered and labelled for a reason
And there are no coincidences. Everyone knows this.
There are frequencies on strings we cannot hear
That buzz and thrum to a separate rhythm
If we cannot understand, why try even to listen?
It gets harder to stretch outwards and explore
As each day tightens, knot like, around our ankles
And shackles us to what went before, until we learn
That there are no coincidences. Everyone knows this.
But the consensus doesn’t have to be true:
If it is written in the stars, we have to learn
To read between the constellations.
The sublime isn’t found in the regular repetition
Of rhythmic rotas, and the lines that border our days
Can neatly be hurdled: and if, just if
This claustrophobic alpha asphyxiation of hours
Can be escaped into a beta of beyond
Where we ignore what is written for us, and
Dance a drawing instead: then, only then, will we find
That we can make our own coincidences. And we will know this.
There are no coincidences. Everyone knows this.
All that occurs in this rain-washed, sky-shrouded world
Is aligned to the beat of a greater heart:
This expansive stretch of time,
Reaching out like the alphabet
From the Anthropocene to the Zeitgeist
Is ordered and labelled for a reason
And there are no coincidences. Everyone knows this.
There are frequencies on strings we cannot hear
That buzz and thrum to a separate rhythm
If we cannot understand, why try even to listen?
It gets harder to stretch outwards and explore
As each day tightens, knot like, around our ankles
And shackles us to what went before, until we learn
That there are no coincidences. Everyone knows this.
But the consensus doesn’t have to be true:
If it is written in the stars, we have to learn
To read between the constellations.
The sublime isn’t found in the regular repetition
Of rhythmic rotas, and the lines that border our days
Can neatly be hurdled: and if, just if
This claustrophobic alpha asphyxiation of hours
Can be escaped into a beta of beyond
Where we ignore what is written for us, and
Dance a drawing instead: then, only then, will we find
That we can make our own coincidences. And we will know this.