Apogee - Carl Sonnen

[Lawrence Robinson]

Apogee

The inevitable weightlessness 

that occurs at a point

where there is no more 

upward progress.

 
And yet the downward journey 

has yet to begin.

The inflection between up 

and down.

 
The resolution of inertia 

and gravity

held in equilibrium

theoretically lasting 

no time at all.

 
No right

No wrong

No good

No bad

No yours

No mine

No is

No was

 
The absolute beauty 

of nothingness

never more or less there.

 
And yet it happens every cycle of breath

every heartbeat

every moment before 

a thought occurs

where there lies a chance 

to behold the exquisite pause

of nothingness 

where choice exists.

 
A chance to alter the equation

before something 

besides love 

happens

or doesn’t.



	- Carl Sonnen
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