“U”

The middle of this “O”:
That’s where you wanna be.
Actually, no!
The middle of a “U”:
That’s you;
That’s me.
We’ll stay open then
But held in a gap.
Safe, but in space,
Like a moon
In a lap.
U can sit in it as nothing
Then fly off into more.
Into the open, open,
Upen!
Higher higher;
Soar soar.
Let it not be too defined.
Let it stand for “Undefined”!
An “O”: it’s just too tight
Like a hug that’s too unkind.
But a “U”s a good place holder
For a poem
Or a nothing.
For a got
And get going,
Up and out
Into

(A version of this poem was first published in The Writers Club, August 2022 (https://greythoughts.info/clubpieces/u))