The Eye of the Forest

What do you mean, go and gone,

Exactly? That’s up to you.

The literal sense seems wrong,

Though, after contemplation.

Wouldn’t stopping be closer?

Stopping and stopped, not go, gone.

But stopping implies presence,

Just an absence of motion,

And death won’t be that either.

Vanish, vanished. Here and not.

Pick your terminology,

Appropriately or not.

The forest will shift but go

On growing as something else

Transforming into itself,

But the opening it made

In itself will not be there,

The eye will close. Close and closed.