snowflakes and fireflies

by Mankh

they say no two snowflakes are alike but there is
no way to prove that think of all the blizzards no
way to check each one even though scientists
infer from what’s been seen that no two are alike
yet no way to prove that so what was the point
anyway that we’re all alike but different? yet what
of raindrops, sandstorms, hail, dust and loose dirt
in your eyes when the wind blows strong?  what
of bone-dry days thirsting for liquid? air soup-thick
with humidity your hair curls, breath wavers?
goosebumps on human skin when the air first
autumn cools or from a lover’s heart of winter
touch? and by the way you can’t step into the same
river twice if you consider everything in motion
nothing exactly the same yet somehow strangely
familiar unless your first time on your back in the
wilderness and there that fiery streak all of a
sudden out of nowhere goes your first time seeing
a shooting star but even that a memory the light
from so long ago yet there today smack in your
sky-vision just before a firefly (they all look alike)
brings you closer to Earth home blinking light
up into your eyes

 ~ Mankh (Walter E. Harris III)
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