Things Come & Go
Things come and go:
Lightening bright and sudden
Over in a nano-second
Dew, its job completed,
Lost in air, evaporated.
Forms diverse;
A shared non-substance: emptiness.
A single thing the ring of truth
Is that we are illusory.
Still paradoxically,
But for a shape, look, name
We are we have the permanently
same inside,
The rest a mutable: ephemeral
And seldom in the know
Things come and go
As quickly as they do.
Things Come & Go 2.4.2020 Birth, Death & In Between III; Arlene Nover Corwin
Arlene Corwin Poetry 