The Object of Intent Is To Get There

“I am in the world to change the world.”

—Muriel Rukeyser

One lifetime meets another lifetime

in a constant lifetime of wars.

Leaning cities greet us at every station

and every wound points to the same place.

If your unique pain cancels out my unique pain

then there is nothing unique about pain.

What’s left to do

but carry your troubles to where they’re going;

once there, you stumble on the rest of us.