the thing I heard.

Wisdom! I cried,
Wisdom in the midst of my foolishness!
And wisdom replied,
Hush, fool,
to hear me you must first be silent.

And the first thing to appear
was my loneliness
for I am always and ever and only here.
and all others, always there.
I am here alone
and wisdom said, Learn to be here, alone
For there is nothing else to learn

you may encounter another
and during this, still,
you will be here and he will be there
and after this, still
you will be here, and she will be there
and you will never know where "there" is.

and it seems to begin and end,
but to say "the beginning" and to say "the end"
is only to draw a line.

Undraw it. Draw it in a different place. Undraw it again.

For where does it end, or where does it begin?
There?
Or here?