Debtor's Depth

Poem

Debtor's Depth

The beautiful moment
I couldn’t be content with
until further discovery

What was given
could only be
provisionally experienced
until some meaning
was found

And its finding,
to mean anything,
had to be intentional

So I shunned
the surface
on which all lay
and started below,

digging with
the strength
my curiosity provided

I never considered
the eventual effect
of this
on my seeing

All I gathered,
I never lifted

not realizing
the lack of light
I mistook for the lack
of everything else