False Hopes
False Hopes
Missed Connections in Tucson, AZ
The monkey is reaching
For the moon in the water.
Until death overtakes him
He’ll never give up.
If he’d let go the branch and
Disappear in the deep pool,
The whole world would shine
With dazzling pureness.
Note from the Missed Connections Chief Bottle Finder:
It took me a moment to really appreciate the imagery of “reaching for the moon in the water.” How often do we repeatedly grasp as seemingly real illusions? In this case though, the monkey appears to be reaching while anchored to a branch – and can only image what it would be like to dive head-first into the unknown.
