Tending Down

by Jay Paul

water in human form

fluid in the fingers

in the toes

in the toenails and hair

water in the soles

of the feet

 

water tends toward

the lowest spot

all effort merely a twitch

on the way down

 

water in the form

of a blade of grass

reaching for the sun

itself water too

 

the sun tends down

as does the grass

as do humans

because all is water

finding the lowest

available place

 

water joins the two ponds

that had been separated

by a tended path

human effort twitches

and stagnates

a road is flooded

 

the water table

is up in this part of earth

because of more

precipitation

because of climate change

human effort

twitches and spasms

can only divert

the inevitable 

tendency of water

 

the sun keeps

drenching us

with its water

 

there is no beginning

there is no ending

there is no birth

there is no death

in water

 

warming ice drips

into the pond beneath

water in the form

of a leaf

twists and tumbles

down in air

 

consciousness is the form

of water

water is the form

of consciousness

 

holds together

everything is 

is water

water is