Each event is quite unique.
Nothing ever happens twice.
What occurs will not recur.
There can be no second time.


Even gear teeth will have changes
by the time they mesh again.
Though they seem to stay the same,
hard things slowly wear away.


As for softer things, they move,
varying in shape and place
and in memory and hope
twenty-seven thousand days.


Still I keep a single name
labeling a twinkling sea
though it is ten billion waves
that are constituting me.


Theodore Melnechuk