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Keep the question (the quest) front and centre through it all.
Ignore—or not—the things, your stuff,
because seeing or not seeing them has no effect on that ultimate question.
Unless, of course, you attribute to everyday things
(Jack Frost's brilliant but ephemeral
window paintings, for example)
a symbolic weight that imbues the question itself
with greater mystery.
Contemplating the mystery lessens the dread.
Nothing becomes something
simply because a bulb pushes out a green shoot
or a red flower.
Whatever is the end
(and, pace Philip Larkin, no one knows it)
the passage is lightened and brightened
by the sun's sudden emerging
on a bitter day,
by the overpowering joy
of the contrast between shadow and light--
our true shades of meaning.
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