Originally posted 4/12/2010.
When we have crossed the last line
When we have left unhappy and can see happy
When our teeth stop traveling in search of substance
When we demand and no longer beg
When we are seen fully by another
When the sense of otherness is tamed
When learning is the equivalent of living
When it stops being a big deal
When work is jazz and not techno
When the lovers blow hot always hot
When the cool is demonstrated by a hand in a fire unburned
When warm clothes make the war go away
When street is asphalt and not adjective
When prairie takes precedence
When river is clean fuel
When ocean slips pregnancy to us through our eyes
When bird and snake combine to make historical marker
When tumbledown prisons become flower mounds
When the last butchers fall meatless into our arms
When mean mumbling is sampled and made to rock
When beauty is defined as “every face we see”
When this is all quaint
When no one needs to learn this at any emotional level
When this is so clear it is invisible
Then
Dark Matter 
February 6th, 2015 at 2:29 pm
Yes.
February 6th, 2015 at 12:45 pm
when the sense of otherness is tamed.
When beauty is defined as every face we see
at least it’s still a hope
even though
we now know
we gain but an inch
toward it
in a century or more.