Ichigo Ichie

This biological number will never exist again / A combination lock changing through time

This biological number will never exist again
A combination lock changing through time

Of a localized and non-transferable situation
A typical instance of the snap configuration

Where the equivalent thought may be pondered
But the underlying interpretation will never be

Where environmental and familial pressures mold
DNA and learned information lock in, chaos reigns

Sprung and grasped from deep within the mind
Into a bit of nostalgia to influence an emotion

That smell to shake the senses into action
Wobbles of forethought, barrels of indecision 

A Being of many variables and circumstances
Feelings or memories never to be shared by another

With shame and trauma, anger and sulking sorrow
Pinches of happiness, sprinkle on some loneliness

The baking rage of repetitive inferences pushed
A gentle smile in one’s direction to pull towards

Upon a universal edict of the deterministic flow
Propagation through events to shape each of us

The record keeper of all incoming pivot points
Thrusts the data through the brain mechanism 

To this moment and every moment along the path
No two instances will be identical for any identity

As each unique I intercepts this dynamic present
A treasury spring of an endless geyser provides


By: Trevor Kuether

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Ichigo Ichie - ("one time, one meeting") is a Japanese four-character idiom (yojijukugo) that describes a cultural concept of treasuring the unrepeatable nature of a moment. The term has been roughly translated as "for this time only", and "once in a lifetime". The term reminds people to cherish any gathering that they may take part in, citing the fact that any moment in life cannot be repeated; even when the same group of people get together in the same place again, a particular gathering will never be replicated, and thus each moment is always a once-in-a-lifetime experience.