the point

i find it unnecessary
to convince others
of any of my convictions
my feeling is

nature is already perfect
as it is

regardless of our feelings
about how we
might want it otherwise

my views are conversations
i hold in my head
because my guests
sit so far away, shackled
in their own houses
perhaps only penned
as i said
to convince myself

you who stayed
till here
thank you

i exaggerate when i say
these words saved me
from a certain obsession
i hope that you too
found some value in them

maybe you dislike what i say
in which case
please close this book
before you reach this point

i suspect you have
already beaten me to it
and never
leafed through this book
never even showed up
to contemplate these thoughts
left these words
dead calm
behind
ignored
and functioned fine without them
like everyone else
who stayed away
so as not to hear
the tree
unseen
on its own
in the forest
fall

this is after all
the unpopular opinion

i don't write this
to be funny

it's what i truly believe

because
even the unbeliever
believes in something