Spiral

There is the moment in which the thought is formed

In some stressful irresolution that must secure peace

At an early stage, just beyond the learning contest;

Confidence will dictate the level of known concern,

Doubt may serve as a truer warning of fortune’s way.

Tested through the years by experience and observation,

Remarked upon as effecting the turn of conversations

And even the manner of dress and the way of walking,

The thought of the moment is submerged and preserved

Never to be entirely altered or entirely dismissed

Because it is a vital merger that is all that is known

Of this subject to this person in these circumstances.

To say it is fully determined is to dramatise the case

Which is open at every moment to revision by someone new

And is viewed in its perspective as a younger, simpler self

Dealing with vicissitude and blessing as best it could.

Besides, the thought is a new thought, more real,

More necessary and inspiring than anything that is read

Or written for the delectation and edification of minds;

It is the most and best that can be hoped for

Even if coming from the pains of contradiction.

From being subsumed the thought of that moment, which is

In likelihood a moment deep indebted to all previous moments

That could possibly have led to such a turn of eventfulness,

Becomes assumed in the actions and bearing and attitude,

That thought amongst other hidden thoughts in the subject

That remain widely unknown to all and even the subject

Yet which lead them on to make such general pontificals

As, oh yes that’s them to a T, what else do you expect,

Yes, that’s the nature of the beast – leaving it at that.

But the thought of the moment is no one else’s business,

It makes it easier to breathe, easier to see and feel.

So that what she said in her letter serves the understanding

And recognition of how the intelligence develops,

When she said that it is like being on a spiral staircase,

Seeing from a higher curve in the climb the same thought

At a lower level below and behind you and to your left;

That you are on the same purposeful ascent of thinking

In which body, life and thought are not discontinuous.