LOVE

Rocks for Soil
Plants for Water
Air for Wind, Fire for Fuel
And Humans
For Themselves
And Others.

I read Somewhere
That the only way
God could appreciate
The World They created
Was to People it
With Consciousness.

At first blush
Sounds like a Xtian
Notion:
The human-centrism
Of a self-serving
Solipsism.

Then I read (My Life in Books)
It is a matter
Of Empirical fact
That the Cosmos
Keeps company with itself
Through Consciousness.

That the Existential
Condition of the Universe
Is of Loneliness
Of all abiding Desolation:
Pale wash of Moonlight
On Empty Mountains.

Can it be possible
That All that can be Known
Depends on filaments
Of Connection
Colloquially known (On this Planet)
As Love…

Rocks for Soil
Plants for Water
Air for Wind, Fire for Fuel
And Humans
For Themselves
And Others?