March

Nevermind our various life circumstances
We had all been flung in to the water without having been taught to swim
We ate, we slept, we formed our kaleidoscopic relationships and marched ever forward
We licked chocolate from our fingers
We inspected our backsides while trying on clothes
We gave ourselves over to art
We elected officials and complained
We marked life passages in ceremonies we attend with impatience and pride
We reached out for love when what we had died
Confessing our unworthyness, confessing our great need
We felt at times maybe we really were from another planet
We occasionally wondered if each of us was just make believe
But this was a wobbly saucer, this was thinking we could not endure
We went back to loving, to eating, to sleeping, to marching and marching and marching along