Eventually, Everything Connects

OUr lives all come together

in circles.

Some, small as the spiral shell

of a child's ear.

Some, decades in diameter.

Some, thin - imperceptible 

as a trip wire.

Others, thick as the delineation

between before and

after.

Some have come to closure.

Some, we don't come upon the start of

until we have one foot

in the grave. 

This maddening cycle of 

Newton's law

keeps us chasing the action,

but never recognizing the reaction.