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Yes, there are varying negotiations of meaning when considering enjambment, but in this case, it was mainly casual and intuitive. In places I've used it as a means to add emphasis to the words that begin certain lines, other places are for rhythmic reasons--with the hope that it will make it stand more as poetry than prose. I'm not opposed to a purely prosaic poem, but that was not my intent, clearly.
This poem was actually rather spontaneous, which is why I marked it as a first draft. I composed it as I was making the post. I welcome playing around with the line breaks.
Thanks for your feedback, and I look forward to your revisiting it.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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