Past, Present and Accounted For

The problem with the past 

is that consequences say, 

"Here we are!"

                      in the moment

of now of which we think

that's all there is:

                         the causality

of connectivity says,

"Cut the child in half!"

and a lie becomes the saving

grace of life

                     and we are not 

ashamed.

                But the child

with two mothers, father

unknown, forces 

the revelation of love

through a lie all can see.

We should be so fortunate

if our consequences came close

to that --

              a love that cannot

bear losing what it has given

life to.

-Byron Hoot