Sonnet #277

Every sentence must be doing, being

Every thought we have must come in sentences

An actor or participant engages in a thing

We move. We seek. We scurry. We fence

ourselves, inside our minds, to moving, moving

Always doing. We think this way: get busy

living or get busy dying; as if death is a thing

requiring our participation, as if the hurry

is the sign of life; what did i do today?

What did you today? What accomplishments 

will line the walls of your obituary?

We need a new way of talking about existence

That does not demand anything of anyone

To speak without speaking, both did and undone