A GRAVITUS VIEW OF SPACE-TIME SQUEEZE AND PUSH ON US

It starts to squeeze and push us 

Before we're even born

While still within colloidal fluids

A floating, disembodied, mass of flesh

It pulls and pushes us around

And when finally, our mothers, weary

Spill us out on our own

We're pulled and pushed as we are born

It will tug and push us

from there on

As time goes by

And cartilage fuses into bone

The force is constant

To take us home

The force that soars and 

Reaches for Sun and Stars

Is held at bay

Pegged to a shore

At middle age, our buttocks sag

Cheeks grow gaunt and long

And bloated bellies strain and pulls us all around

It's not diet,

Big-boned, genetic,

Being flat-footed,

Or saturated fats

Not face lifts
Or tummy tucks
Deter it

It's mass and weight

Combating in time and space

And then, when bones can't bear the weight

And we grow old and short,

And like Prufrock

We'll wear our trousers rolled

We'll lie inert, and yield to it at last

And the lifelong tug and push

Of Mother Earth...

Its Gravity...
Or something relative to that

Will pull/push us into to her

And take us back