sunflower seeds

do you understand

that you’ll never understand

that there’s nothing understood

except for the fact

that all try for understanding

but fail both you and do

and failing too

*

if only we weren’t

bred from a god

who took a rest on

the seventh day

maybe we would have

accomplished much more

and not have needed god

for so much

that amounted to so little

*

if he dies

he hopes they’ll say

he didn’t care what they’ll say

and if in some way he did

like how a dead plant

still warms in the sun

then he hopes they find the words

they need to find

for he has joined

the silence and the silenced

like the flowers

who’s language he never learned

even now

as his nose sprouts with life