This and that are all we have

(heartbreaking blue sky at Trinity, Sunday 5/31/09)

From one of my favorite bloggers, Breed ‘Em and Weep:

There we go, guessing again,
ruminating, bovine humans.
We must understand what we
never will: that is
beyond our comprehension.
So is this.

Farewell, comprehension.
This human life can only be
lived with compassion, passion,
and compassion for the passionate.

This:
Loving what we love,
missing what we believed we were.

That:
choosing what we choose,
mourning what we do not choose,
know we will not choose.

This and that.
This and that are all we have.

(Jennifer Mattern)