Unseen

Preview this composition of a day.
Schedule full.
Location of the heart of things
clearly in view.
Gadgets with buttons and bells
allow the haste of the day
to multiply like hammers and the rasp
to wear us down--

penetrate our peace
with the steel tip
etching away at the surface
into the heart of things

until we disappear
into the din of despair,
unseen in the clutter of things.