Expectation

June 2, 2016/August 21, 2016

The incomplete task
filling the narrow horizon
of possibility and
disastrous consequence
the gnawing larvae of
fear and anxiety
beyond reputation and ruin
the frantic struggle
against terminal impotence
the gray liberation
of hopelessness
despair beyond horror
the moment without
remembrance or
expectation
only then
the fragrant explosion
of zen strawberries
unsought and unhoped
each day its own dawn