the summoning

what was the summoning, 

before it came to be dust,

before it had naming potential,

before audience was a working concept,

before matter had a pulse?

how did summon have a means?

some specificity that oriented, 

gathered as an embodiment of it's kind,

placed in a great whole,

by whom?

and to notice as what?

audience is so sensory ordained.

is everything a mirror

of another's awareness method of use?

are we only self-referential, 

yet claim experience as ascertainment? 

are we living in replicas of a mind-sense

and think we are returning 

death to dust and fumes?

if so, 

then life is a short story,

a chapter one as self-narrative.

who reads the whole book

for instructional purposes

and comes here to live it all alive?

so what was the summoning,

we all gathered for? . . .