Nonlinear

As brave as a deciduous tree in winter,

with only its trembling to give, I live.

Leaves, ordinary, thin, brown, die;

dying, enrich the earth; I?

For the cruciform tree, a resurrection,

seasons, promise, a rebirth. There are no coincidences,

there is a plan, the hope of seedlings, again, again, again.

Not for me. For me, the responsibilities

of chaos. For me, the uncertainties of matter,

the randomness, the ecodisasters,

the blasted, dying trees, the impartialities

of space,

of place.

(They now find patterns

in nonlinear matter,

clinging to fractals,

still hoping to escape

random, null space

and soon

eroding

place.)

Even Heisenberg was certain

that matter would not die, but become,

if need be, E: the Einsteinian assurance.

But dying is no big deal: Only cockroaches live forever.

And matter, as we know it, must disappear.

The ultimate change,

called end, is embossed upon your genes.

And determined to live at all cost,

what freedom, what real,

if evanescent, truth

is lost?