this is not significant

what's absent is the sense that we are whole

for what belongs here has for now been lost

between the summer and the coming frost

what we thought the beginning was the goal

the meaning in the symbol had been glossed

what's absent is the sense that we are whole

so many stars that dance around the pole

but fail to guide us when we're tempest-tossed

that's what we find out and we pay the cost

what's absent is the sense that we are whole