The Reversion to the Meaning

What happens in the long run
Will never be exactly
What happens in the short term,

And the regularity
Of aggregates will never
Rule all individuals.

All exceptions get swallowed
Back into norms they defied,
But the norms never prevent

Exceptions from occurring,
And in this ramifying
Prison of paradoxes

Where all rooms can be broken
While altogether no one
Can actually escape,

You continue to invest
The relentless patterning
With magic you call meaning.