These Things
These Things - meaning Summary
False Centers and Small Lights
The poem observes how people invest energy in things that do not elevate or connect to genuine meaning. Actions are motivated by boredom, fear, money, or diminished intelligence, producing a small, fragile inner light. In expanding outward with empty ideas we lose a true center, becoming wax without a wick. Former signifiers of wisdom become hollow markers, while what remains tangible is the final reality of graves.
Read Complete Analysesthese things that we support most well have nothing to do with up, and we do with them out of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence; our circle and our candle of light being small, so small we cannot bear it, we heave out with Idea and lose the Center: all wax without the wick, and we see names that once meant wisdom, like signs into ghost towns, and only the graves are real.
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