Understanding

understanding

The length and width
and depth of actions
rarely surface immediately
They evolve in an ocean
of meaning and chance.

The side long glance
of a wife, at a stranger
in a crowded city park.
The discovery of a 20
year affair with a coworker.

The awkward struggle
of a child to play soccer.
The teenage anger and
clumsy frustration, later
a diagnosed of "MS"

A father's childish fear
of dentists and doctors
based on painful childhood
experiences and the minor
infection that ended his life.

All of the thousands of
insignificant and unconnected
events that fill a lifetime,
that we never understand
in a universe of relativity.