Strands

(Written 5 December 2020, 1:43 am.) 

in the unforgiving strands of
it all

some frayed edges find

each other

and gingerly

falteringly

incorrectly

wrap themselves

around the other

it hurts

and is ungraceful

and unaesthetic

and to be honest

rather quite ugly

but against all odds

and against all decorum

and against all beauty (and satisfaction)

the joining

holds

at least for now

(no one has seen tomorrow

or so the atheists tell me)