Differentiate

Differentiate

See what we are

It is providential

To ascribe a belief

In the constancy of change

Without ever caring

To look closely

At representation

When difference

Is more than a suggestion

To reform

How we see

The result of accumulated

Loss

Will inform

What we do with our souls

If they can be found

Buried beneath

The detritus of life

Cast off

Shed as snake skin

Outgrown

In a desire to move on

Without waiting

For wisdom to catch up

With a human growth spurt

If that is what you want to believe

Without daring to look

Too closely

At what is left behind

Differentiation

Will hinge

On good fortune

Change

Is blind to attribution

Without cause

It will develop

In its own way over time

For good or ill

Unless we take heed

Delve into the mire

And differentiate

Between

One course or another

We are nothing more

Than passengers

Heading pell mell

For the buffers

On a driverless train.