THE ILLUSIONIST

we were given life ... will we look in the fields and in the seas and see it taken away and will we say ours too will be taken ... that which gave life gave being everywhere why would he take it away ... can he change his mind ... can he be disappointed ... is that why we die ... or is the truth of an immortal being true immortally and is anyone so false he has none of that truth anywhere in him ... will a cat or a dog a fish or a worm have enough of that truth in a weaker more general sense to survive only as a species ... in that special way ... will the order of the sun and the stars survive geometrically only or will everything simply rotate and take the form of its neighbor eternally ... except for the child who looks into the face of her mother and names her ... or the boy who maps the night sky herding the stars into their constellations ... the woman or the man who thinks of another this has to stop thinks of an end against a background that has no end ... the one who loves or the one who hates does it by looking through time into eternal truth ... and latches on to what ... an illusion