Perhaps in the end
you have to wonder whether it was all worthwhile,
that perhaps somewhere the life you have
is not just the only one
you will ever see, but when the rewind
button is pressed by eternity’s clumsy fingers,
when it is paused by a calculating and obnoxious mind,
that the mistakes come flooding back
and the day slips into the crowded desire
to shoot the barking dog once and for all…
that sitting in the light is only a temporary respite,