Verse: Ruminations

I wanted
to be nothing
but I sat still
too long

I began
accumulating
perpectives
habits
and observations

I became something
just waiting
to be
anything

like one word
leads to another
I was
I am and
will be

here and now
one and many
I will
continue on
to whatever is next

knowing
you can escape birth
when you are born
and death
by dying

and yet
I cannot escape
myself