Limited perspective

 

 

Now if the self is a perspective

cursory along the line

it is singular,

a place of knowing

and being

in time,

but never isolated

like only all is next to nothing,

not a closed system,

always already open

and connected to everything.

Jumping with quanta

from the idea of unbeing

through all possible histories,

telling the story

of all possible variations,

spinning the yarn

in repetitive gyrations

of a tightly curled spiral,

going from A to B

making loops back in time,

coming back from multiple futures

to know all and be all

like the great god Pan,

you would have to be there

at every moment, all the time,

everywhere,

but what we instead have

is the cursory present now,

a presence and focus

that keeps us separate and in place,

lest we be carried away

by the infinite possibilities

of our abstract imagination.