Ever Be
Feel your sadness
Feel your losses
There’s no good time
For anything
So you might as well be
Whatever
You can be
Let it drill down
Be messy
Be profound
And be as wrong
As you can possibly be
Fail hard
Crash
Boom
Bam
Be stronger
In the broken places
Be something
More than you thought
You could ever be
Shaking
Euclid’s fifth postulate
Hurts my brain
No parallels
No contradictions
2000 years of failure
Bottomless nights
Curved lines
Extinguishing
Along the shortest path
Pushing outward
Crumpling at the lip
Infinitely
But never reaching the edge
Arcs of circles
Hidden universes
Folding
Out of nothing
Paradoxical and absurd
Never exceeding
A definite limit
Infinitely long
Within a finite space
All angles eventually
Returning to zero
In a spherical geometry
Intersecting
Unbounded
Undefined
Necessarily relative
Like a broken off lid
Shaking in a tin can
John Drudge is a social worker working in the field of disability management and holds degrees in social work, rehabilitation services, and psychology. He is the author of seven books of poetry: “March” (2019), “The Seasons of Us” (2019), New Days (2020), Fragments (2021), A Long Walk (2023), A Curious Art (2024) and Sojourns (2024) . His work has appeared widely in literary journals, magazines, and anthologies internationally. John is also a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee and lives in Caledon Ontario, Canada with his wife and two children.
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