Caring

We are here for many things

mostly at variance:

to make ourselves something

other than nature made us

yet not to deny nature;

to divine and follow reason

yet to dare at a moment

to follow something other

which guides us against reason.

But most, surely, to care.

Care for ourselves (how else

can we understand caring?)

more for other things (beauty,

truth), most, like Sydney

dying, to care for others.

The image of Sydney's death

is mythical, someone says.

But living he earned this

beautiful crown of myth,

this parable of truth.