Together

Alan Harris

There was never a never

so always as forever

nor a permanence

so flimsy as finished.

There was never a happy

so permanent as joy

nor a falseness so

fleeting as autonomy.

Insulation clothes well

till it suffocates,

and protection is safe

till it isolates.

To breathe always joy

let our hearts strive together

most brave toward that space

both above and unknown

where our labor with stones

can build the next temple.

Build we together or

become we the stones.

All