Entropy Can Be Enlivening, I Expect


Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction
And Kali, his consort...
Can be interpreted as forces
Of entropy and dissipation

But I believe it's the opposite
They are forces necessary to clear away
The cobwebs and encrustations
To make way for creativity and
What's new

I had a dream last night or early this morning
In which the fabric of my home
And reality
Were coming apart
Literally

Threads were hanging down from the sky
Tufts of ectoplasm would come off in my hand
And I felt this melancholy
That had the power to
Further destroy reality

I woke in a daze
Sure that nothing meant anything anymore
As all would come apart
Without the work that I couldn't bring to it

A vicious circle, I think 'they' call it.
And then I started...
One foot in front of the other.
Led me to see loved ones and
Pieces of a life that wanted to be sustained.

One step
In front of
The other

Clear away old forms and though patterns
Make a life, let if flow through from the roots
Of everything
Again