unconsciousness

we sit here caught twixt history and text

interpreters of one more well-told tale

another weight that's added to the scale

of knowledge what wisdom comes unvexed

by normal suffering in the context

of work and study long before we ail

or fade into the dark with one last wail

that's the hard question leaving us perplexed

the act political we cannot doubt

must be for us the central urgent norm

for making easier the chance that curled

within the force that bids each one to shout

the truth and nature of the rising form

is the bright hope of an emergent world