Just a happy coincidence

Do not fear the flames

for they are only here to bring life

as music is here to enlighten the senses

as poetry is here to help us breathe

what is unknown to us

and what is unknown to us?

Oh simply the little things

the invisible things

the ‘out of the corner of our eyes’ things

the patient inevitability of things

the finite moments of the death of things

the waltz of the flowers as Tchaikovsky saw them, things

the passing of time within the minuscule eternity of things

the genius of geniuses and the things they create from a spark of … fear?

and how

the happy coincidences of things being just so

seem to appear just at the right time

So, do not fear the flames

simply embrace what is

behold the chaos around you

and breathe