Peaks

Climax.
We begin in great drama.
Coming out of the middle.
Blood. Tears. Severed cords.
Wet. Wailing. Weary.
Our arrival is a pre-determined peak.
(if it goes well)

And then,
awareness multiplies,
as we take on increasing measures
of experience,
choice and responsibility.
As our body's agenda evolves our being.

We are now a sequence
with our peaks, plateaus and troughs,
criss-crossed with other sequential stories,
some close, some afar.
With imagined endings, exits and doorways
(which we make happen if we will)
but ever in the sequence
continuing endlessly into and around
the space/time dream.