On Giving Up & Not Giving Up

by Eric Chaet

The ticking of the Moon obscures the great wave
of your & my & the universe’s development —
we’re so distracted by human competition.

I guess I know a lot about giving up & not giving up.
Each instance, multiplied by every one previous
is how we outgrow & shed our own & human history —
not just industrialization or who controls it —
but particulars we foolishly believed
& hauled with us til now.

So that not giving up is giving up
what we imagined was keeping us safe
which we give up
& become more useful than previously imaginable.

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