Eight: question (poetry series)
question
Natural feeling
Natural detachment and attachment in—
Balance, Right Balance, and the difficulty in
the word itself
A sub-question. Do we want it to mean a mean,
a quality, a norm, a commonality
How much and what sort our chief concern?
Which is to run ahead of the point
And if indifference is the pure…envisioning a scale
You feel nothing but neutral and willing to care
We skew the objective putting value on the positive
All things ranked neutral-plus if encountered unknown
Attached to a storehouse of similar things
a value within a range assumed
The range more or less determined?
Asserting its parameted quality on our thing proposed
Not then of indeterminate value
You see, we begin already chasing circles
Gain is good for me and so my affection
Lodges at self plus gain
Equaling engaged support for gain plus self
Call that love
question
Benevolence
(2020, Stephanie Foster)