consistency

there are some life-forces that remain constant:

1. gravity acting on an apple: loosening its grip on a broken stem, causing a fall from a tall tree.

         1a. free fall speed velocity (which, technically, has no force acting upon it, but remains constant within
the context of general relativity.)

2. the tides moving in and out.

3. bees requiring pollen to make honey.

4. the hush waves make on a blustery, cloud-filled morning. when the wind whips sand in my face,
and in the crevices of my shorts, and in the stem-hole of an apple stored in my unzipped
backpack, and in the cracks in my travel mug full of coffee, and in between where floss reaches my teeth.

5. the way that no snowflake pattern is ever the exact same.

          5a. in this same thinking, how cloud formations are not the same, but their molecules
are specifically formed the same way. 

6. my thoughts on you.

           6a. how desire eats away at coherent thought, until all that’s left is an exposed
chewed-down apple core of want. 

           6b. your smile is like a hard-won reward: 

                   - pulling excalibur from the stone (also see: defeating rodents of unusual size.)

                   - discovering a new star, buried deep in the dark matter of the universe. 

                   - how trees continue to root into the earth, even with sidewalk pavement stamped over top of them. 

            6c. there’s a strange hope in discovering the discomfort in not knowing the feelings of others.
in how a feeling like hope can be constant. like the return of new, bright green growth on a cut-back stem.