Return Controller Rendezvous

Once again

I’ve left that back burner on

for days and days and days

waiting for the water to boil

returning to find it all evaporated

changing phase again

I fill it up and walk away

if I kept it in my sight

the change would never happen

so again I find it empty

waiting for attention

and again

and then again

until eventually the trend

is so established

that it’s habit

fill leave boil gone empty

fill boil gone

Now and then I’ll catch myself off guard

and get the timing right

or someone else will recognize

or force my hand

to recollect the plans and tasks

all stacked in minerals

stuck around the dried up pot

and I become a temporary scientist

extracting information

from molecular strands of data

cataloged in amino acids

to reconstruct the skeleton and function

of what has broken down to dust

somehow it comes out better than new