Continuum (Poem)

Here's the text of the poem from the Continuum video (http://www.hitrecord.org/records/424631) in case it is of use!


In the beginning one becomes two


Entwined for nine then suddenly set free


Gasping into life, grasping fingers with fists


Your tiny wrists weak


You cry out at the blurry inconsistent vastness of this new womb


We all seem to be born too soon


Before too long you’re on all fours


And in one year you’re on two feet


Incomplete but growing at a wild pace


Occupying more of that vast space you’re still unsure of


 


Your face contorts then into teenhood


Numbers making little sense except in opposition


Your position changes, you take shape


And painfully you form a fuller you


Least you’re supposed to.


 


19 turns to twenty and there’s plenty that you know now


More still that you think you do


The things that you hold true, it seems,


Are sometimes phases that you’re going through


And more phases come and go with years


Until deviations dip and you become the median


Your whims unhinged, your bolder schemes wiped clean


Two up two down and 9-5 then 2.3 and a semi-d


No shame in that,


 a shame you didn’t see it sooner


 


But before you know it, you’re much older


On the outside anyway it shows


Wrinkled head to toes and not as able as you once were


If only you had all this knowledge then


In the way back when


 


You do your best to pass your findings on


In a letter, in a song, in a long embrace with feeling


But deep down you know that meaning comes with time


And only time spent really living at that


 


So we all must walk our own path


Long or short depending how you look at it


Unending if you see it from afar


I see now that we are


A pattern


Like all others


Children and mothers


Children and mothers