Parallax

our need to measure
determine
define
is satisfied by these instruments we use
but is just as easily accomplished through awareness
of where we stand
in space
in time
in the context of the whole

I, too, measure my life by parallax
staring, unblinking, at the dawn star
which seems to fade as the blue blanket that surrounds it lightens
the star itself has not changed

just as when, finding myself
moved to shed the weight of something I held dear
my being has not changed

I am simply seeing
more of myself.