
“Just because something didn't happen doesn't mean it isn't true.”
Appears in the book The Syntax of Sorcery (2012).
"Cat in an Empty Apartment"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The End and the Beginning (1993)
Context: Something doesn't start
at its usual time.
Something doesn't happen
as it should.
Someone was always, always here,
then suddenly disappeared
and stubbornly stays disappeared.
“Just because something didn't happen doesn't mean it isn't true.”
Appears in the book The Syntax of Sorcery (2012).
Variant: Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Playing at Bluedot Festival (2019)
“Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.”
As quoted in In God's Care : Daily Meditations on Spirituality in Recovery (1991) by James Jennings and Karen Casey