Forever Unfinished Monster Done

Mathematically, the past
Might be no more than a spectrum
Of possibilities, but we

Have non-mathematical plans
For the spectral this afternoon.
The past is a growth that can’t stop

Growing, with any awareness
Riding along like a petal
Clinging to the branch that birthed it,

While most of the tree’s lost to sight.
Ignorance and limitation
Mean that the unknown’s a spectrum

Of possibilities, but past
In the sense of done’s a monster.