Infinitive

Need not come on strong
to need
not come on i
need not come on
to need
not come at all
come not i
to equalize
raise the living
to join
the dead
id been counting blades of greenest grass
to quiet
the voices in my head
when Jane had made her way
across the slow parade
having seen countless particles of matter
tumbling
stuttering to shatter
a new way,
the good road home
when
to listen is
to know
that
we need not come on strong
to need not
come at all.