The Unknown is
the worm that lurks
inside us all,
and moves and hides
and finds its way
to the parts vulnerable
and to the spaces unexpected,
moving silent and stealthy
and feeding all the time on
expectation and fear.
But the Unknown is also
the symbiotic worm,
dependent on its host
to look for the future
and exist on the
meal of expectation
from which it too
draws nourishment
as it finds its form in
the great striving
of what might be.
3/8/2017