There are always more people who see the problem than
People who will fix it
There are always prophets
And some are worth listening to
There are always more ideas than inventions
More conceptions than births
More misconceptions, always, than truths
Because, while truths exist, they are few
Hurt people are always hurting people
Some truths are ugly that way
There is always a reason to give up because fear–
Fear is never hard to understand
There are always old people wishing they were young people
Telling young people to grow up
I am afraid that if my children grow up too fast
they will wake up dreamless
Right now, somebody is breathing for the last time,
just as a seed is planted
Every night people are sleeping alone or having lonely sex
while in some other bedroom a star explodes
Former loves are glaring hatred across a lawyer’s cherry table
While newlyweds board a Sunwing flight to Mexico, all-inclusive
Nothing is ever all-inclusive
We are always conceiving new ways to exclude
There are ins and there are outs and there are always consequences
Too much is riding on a coin flip
The Bible told me there is a season for everything
but forgot to mention that every season is right now
Everything is happening always
In all ways
At all times
Eternity folding back upon itself
until there is a moment small enough to stand on
There is always a moment