we cower

and this is repeated on many sides

overtly aware of the flaunting

of higher sums
of grander schemes

we forget
over and over again

Truth escapes us

even as it extracts final lessons

taken

so by surprise we find ourselves

in scenes larger

than understandable entails

theirs and ours

both being one,

we are beggers

pleading now.

some comfort, please.

‘vast’ of 139:17 of the psalms.