No mourning

no mourning brings people back
no regret turns time -
we are here to blunder about
in the dark with no
instruction manual:  we
have to make it up
as we go along - change
our costumes, our props,
and scenery
and try to make a good play
at words, at life

people fall into step,
people fall out
and that is it - the waters
are shallower than you think
deeper than you know -

there is no answer to
wounding and sorrow,
to cries in the dark,
you can't know paths
before you walk them
and you don't know
the time you'll depart.

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