While It Lasts

You say. We say for you.
While it lasts. While it lasts.
Not one moment it lasts,

Unless, by it, you mean
To reference the not
Lasting, which lasts and lasts.

You stand in a doorway,
Swaying slightly, fragile
Under furious stars

That can’t control their fires,
And you try, and you try
To think through us, to think

Through all our connections
With all your other minds,
What is it, going on?