Because There Is No Ending (Pimone Triplett)

Because There Is No Ending by Pimone Triplett

I didn't care for this poem until it became clear to me that through the nature talk, it was a poem about a neighbor's brain cancer and how they and their family and the N of the poem deal with that.

Then I found the talk about nature endearing since it is a way of hiding from a devastating truth and a way of seeking order out of meaninglessness. And the last line is so perfect and so crushing. It's below:

Favorite line: "Everyone loves hard as they can, / like it helps."