As Though There Is Meaning Poem by RIC BASTASA

oftentimes
to make life as new
we make
beginnings

a fence here
a garden within
a new house
in the middle of
the land

and then the old
storms come
again

there is always
this instinct
for destruction

for which we must
be all
thankful

for soon we shall
begin anew
another fence there
a new garden here
another house to replace
the old broken one
in the middle of
the land

and so there is
nowhere
or no one
someone is always
here
something
makes the tick
in truth
just another
deception
for us to sow the
earth again
as though
there is meaning