A Cry

Why should the cosmos, hearing
one thing
complaining against another,
take notice,
since everything,
even death,
is a part of itself?

Isn’t it the one thing
that nothing leaves?
If I cry out
just once
doesn’t that cry go onforever?

Walking to Point Clear, Brandl & Schlesinger, 2005
http://www.brandl.com.au/poetry/walking-to-point-clear
© David Brooks