tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17599274920819316302024-02-07T02:36:36.312-05:00Bright Light - Dark WordsPoetry & Prose by Fyodor LewisUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-80018828675032198502023-10-20T04:47:00.000-04:002023-10-20T04:47:19.982-04:00 The Switch Strikes<p><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span> </span><span> </span>The boy calls for his mama in Hebrew<br /></span><span style="text-indent: 48px;">The father
calls for his daughter in Arabic<br /></span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span> </span><span> </span>Tears streak a chubby face and the switch
strikes<br /></span><span style="text-indent: 48px;">Fingernails
scrape against the ceiling fragments, floor remnants<br /></span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span> </span><span> </span>His head bobbles on a tiny neck--body hasn’t
caught up yet<br /></span><span style="text-indent: 48px;">All of her
future, all of her now, within walls of was<br /></span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span> </span><span> </span>“Call for your mama Jew lover!” And the switch
strikes<br /></span><span style="text-indent: 48px;">Then he
uncovers them: tiny toes, a little foot<br /></span><span style="text-indent: 48px;"><span> </span><span> </span>And the switch strikes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>A wail of incomprehension</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"><span> </span><span> </span>The boy calls for his mama<br /></span><span style="text-indent: 48px;">The father calls
for his daughter<br /></span><span style="text-indent: 48px;"><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span></span>And the switch
strikes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span> </span><span> </span>This is my
boy, my very own boy,<br /></span><span> </span><span> </span>I see his hands reach for his mama<br />This is my
daughter, my very own daughter,<br />I see her baby foot in the rubble</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">O Canaan<br /></span>Canaan!<br />O Canaanites</p><p class="MsoNormal">Jew or
Gentile, Arab or Hebrew, Israeli or Palestinian<br />Can you not
see?<br />You kill my
babies<br />Can you not
see that they are all my babies?<br />They are
all my little ones<br />Let them
come to me</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let me take
them up into my arms and take their tears<br />Let me
envelop their tiny hands in my palms<br />Let me
comfort them</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">O Canaan
are you not steeped in enough blood already?<br />Do your
stones not cry out at the blood there?<br />The blood
of your brothers<br />The blood of
Abraham’s sons<br />The blood of
my little ones</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But who
will stop? The starters or the finishers? Or last time’s starters or finishers?<br />Or those
who started before?<br />Back past
all the hateful deeds of terrorists<br /><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span></span>tyrants<br /><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span> </span>colonists<br /><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span> </span>caliphs<br /><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span> </span>caesars<br /><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span> </span>and madmen<br /></p><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: 36pt;">t</span><span style="text-indent: 36pt;">o Joshua clearing the promised land of the
first Canaanites</span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Finishing
that aliyah<br /><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: 48px;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>At
the end of a spear</span></div></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="text-indent: 36pt;"><div style="text-indent: 48px;"><br />A jihad
before that word was spoken in this land<br />A jihad
in a land that continues to scream in the voice of its children that</div><div style="text-indent: 48px;"><br /></div><div style="text-indent: 48px;"><br /></div></span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>NO WAR IS HOLY</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But still,<br /></span>The
Jew is killed<br />The Arab is
killed<br />The aliyah
continues<br />What aliyah
is there still?<br />The struggle
(the true jihad) up from the pit of hatred<br />The Aliyah
to a new (renewed) promised land</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let it be
the one where my little ones are free<br />Let it be the
one where I hold them in my arms</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>If not Israel<br /><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>If not Palestine<br /><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Be a New Canaan</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Be a new
people of six-pointed star and crescent<br /></span>Be a new
people of green, blue, and white<br />Be a new
people of olive branch and dove</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><i>Or draw
your lines starting in Gehinnom </i><br /><i>
and let the little ones be burned in the mouth of Moloch </i><br /><i>
while you blame your brothers</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">and the switch strikes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-33737608828349774302020-04-01T15:09:00.000-04:002020-04-01T15:09:01.631-04:00April 2020 HaikuI.<br />
Surprised by spring's joy<br />The buds unfold in new light<br />Sleep gives way to life<br />
<br />
II.<br />
Read spring's wisdom here<br />
Late or cold, the shoots come up<br />
Pushing life through loam<br />
<br />
III.<br />
The season of death<br />
Surprises us by ending<br />
We are April's fools<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-69678642236365551022020-03-31T17:16:00.000-04:002020-03-31T19:03:28.080-04:00The Locusts Progress<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As the
locusts progress,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The tsunami
takes in its fatal breath,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The first
rumours of the quake surface<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And air
raid sirens pierce silent skies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We say they
will not destroy our fields.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It will not
drown my streets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It will not
shake my house.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It will not
strike me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">or my neighbour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But when
the locusts do not stop,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The wave
does not halt upon our shores,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The shaking
starts without hint of conclusion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">And missiles
fall as rain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On the just and the unjust<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We learn what
it takes to know each other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Friend or
foe, sister or brother;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We are all
neighbours here<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As the
locusts progress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What
sickness must we endure?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What violence
of nature or man?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">What
calamity must befall<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">To finally
know that,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When it is all over,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We will all be there<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Side by side<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Picking fallen seeds <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 108.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">From ravaged fields.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-84488498349844434772018-11-01T03:19:00.001-04:002018-11-01T03:19:25.439-04:00The Prologue's End<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
The coulee calls one down the ridge<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And the sunrise fills it up with gold<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The mule deer watch and wait<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And the new valley’s edge beckons<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
What waits for me upon the other side?<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Here in these brutalist walls<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Enmeshed in fluorescent light <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I build upon myself and wait<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
With minds united and diverse<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I slag through texts and pages<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The digital blue-glow lights the way<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And acrimonious groups parse opaque instructions<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Filling the valley with fog<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Here at the prologue’s culmination<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I emerge from the fog-thick vale<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And see three more ahead <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And beyond<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The glowing plain<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
This is, after all, just the prologue<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-41829263998034464742018-10-31T03:17:00.000-04:002018-10-31T03:17:07.149-04:00Play and Interplay<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
A touch of bottled light reflected<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Across the eyes<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
A dance of undulating waved<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Into the ears<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
A breath of crisp air <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
with the clean decay of leaves<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The play and interplay of what goes in<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And what bubbles to come out<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Let it out<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Don’t fear<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Lest it be bad<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Let it be bad<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Or at least, let it be not good<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Not yet<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Still frothing, growing, changing<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Let it out<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Let it breathe <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Let it leave and become<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Let the play and interplay not end <o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
With the black hole of your eyes<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 123.0pt;">
The vacuum of your ears<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 123.0pt;">
Let it free<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 123.0pt;">
Let it back out<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 123.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 123.0pt;">
Teach me your play<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 123.0pt;">
And interplay<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-51413917233898471122018-10-30T02:15:00.000-04:002018-10-30T02:20:10.883-04:00Where the blue glow ends<br />
And the slick dark begins<br />
<br />
Where the lean and hunch<br />
Becomes the cower and drowse<br />
<br />
Where the time slips<br />
And comes off the axel<br />
And rolls away<br />
And we watch it go<br />
<br />
Though it travels as fast as we walk<br />
<br />
Meet us there<br />
And save us from it.<br />
<div>
<br /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-25193805571834713142014-02-09T02:30:00.000-05:002014-02-09T02:32:16.660-05:00The Entropy of The Human Soul - Part I<div class="MsoNormal">
Part I. The Dénouement </div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
Beginnings are so gurgling, giggling new<br />
And I’ve had one or two<br />
But when the time comes to end<br />
I find that it, I cannot do<br />
<br />
And what will it take<br />
To find my heart and mind awake<br />
To make more (time) than I spend<br />
And bring this entropy to brake?</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
Directionless I fear<br />
I will not find my “Here!”<br />
That special place to wend<br />
And weave my way to in my end</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br />
I wander in my state<br />
While my mind and soul stagnate<br />
My heart a supernova<br />
Yet this red dwarf hesitates</div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />Endings are so flickering, whimpering slow<br />
I have a lot to show<br />
But nothing new to add<br />
to fight the creeping veil of woe</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-27785793771175692202013-02-07T02:22:00.000-05:002013-02-07T02:22:14.127-05:00Of a want of a destinationThe spring of my achievement has fled<br />My breath now freezes on the platform<br />I am here with my burdens<br />Searching for a destination<br /><br />I fled my home in winter<br />More cold at heart than in bones<br />The tracks beat the rhythm of my flight<br />And snow had cloaked the decay<br /><br />(Yet when the train stopped in between<br />I dreamed of getting off<br />And walking into fields of white<br />Until the brilliance consumed me.)<br />Consume me.<br /><br />But destinations are difficult<br />And I carried my burdens from the platform<br />To tables of slowly masticating hunchers<br />And lunch-supper-breakfast-lunchers<br />
<br />
I was fed my destination at mushy lunches:<br />
The humped backs, the shuffled steps,<br />The fogged eyes, the vacant stares.<br />I was destined for indigestion.<br />
<br />
So I walked through uniform woods<br />To slide idle hands in winter pockets<br />But the closeness of the trees<br />Couldn't hide my loneliness from me<br /><br />I purposefully evade my sense of purpose<br />And stuff the present in my eyes<br />Until I'm presently blind<br />And all I've done is flee and flee<br /><br />I will carry my burdens from the platform<br />Past tables of slowly striking keyboard hunchers<br />And nine-to-five five-to-niners...<br />I'm finding destinations difficult.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-48884993741678798712012-06-15T02:15:00.000-04:002012-06-15T02:16:16.860-04:00The Crescendo<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
I rage, I toil, I cower and sweat.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I have not met my maker yet</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and if I meet him I shall say,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
‘Please come again another day.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I am not ready. I am not ripe.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The times not right!’ I’d wail and gripe.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I’d beg of him right there some sign</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
that he was fair; that fate aligned</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and gave me all that I deserved</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
not less and from the path I swerved</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
by some dark power ill beset</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
to full crescendo of regret.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And in the whisper there I heard</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
the tempest break at silent words.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I knew, and he reminds me now,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
that I deserved much worse allowed</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
for fate is held by piercèd hands</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
that save each one from fair demands.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
From instant darkness, ash, and flame</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
and takes upon himself the blame</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
So God the Father please forgive</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
my angry heart; my will to live.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Teach me—slowly—how to die</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
that I might live for more than lies—</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
not what I see but for the hearts</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
That beat for thee—in distant parts—</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
a tune you love to hear and share:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
The music of the lives you cared</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
enough to bring out from the dark.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And each that beats and stills you mark</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
as yours—this orchestra of strings.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
So take my heart and make me sing:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Now in life and then in death,</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
may all I do; may every breath</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
be all for you my Elohim—</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
the Ever Greater Than He Seems.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-58348449838809254062012-02-28T22:05:00.004-05:002012-02-28T22:08:02.360-05:00The Grand Risk<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And I said that if they don't</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">then you will</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">leave...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but I knew that the truth doesn't</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">break</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">down so simply,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">because there</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">at the breaking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and in the moment of</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">retreat</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the tale of the steps you took</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and the hearts that</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">meet</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">are lost in the blur of the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">momentary.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Before the smudging</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of present sufferings</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">there was love and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">hope</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">smiles and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">laughs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and eventually</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">those things that will last on</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">into life and memory. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And we look back</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and see</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and know</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">it was worth it to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">go past this </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">flickering hesitation. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Go past this and don't</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">build those comfort walls</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of fluffy cells</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">in the cold institute of your </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">self-embracing solitude. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Go past this into that</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">grand risk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of a heart open to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">greater loves than this.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-37733030943724019162012-02-01T02:38:00.000-05:002012-02-01T02:46:33.876-05:00My Choice Draught<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I’m inebriated on life</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And all it has to offer</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I keep taking big gulps</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">—Coughing, spluttering, spilling—</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rather than sips and swallows.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There is so much music</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sights, smells, things to try</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tastes to taste</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Feelings to feel</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thoughts to think</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are so many books,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sports, jobs, games, skills, responsibilities</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And the people!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The people!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are so many of them</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So many of us</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So many stories,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tales of families, sorrows, joys</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Of evil, good and all that’s between,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Friends, acquaintances, lovers, and all who could
be...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Why is it that so few will touch my life?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So few... and so many...</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am drunk on presence</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And thirsting for presence</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I vacillate between extreme loneliness</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And a desire for solitude</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But the people</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I wouldn’t give them up</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I wouldn’t go sober</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For while they kill me, enrage me,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Love me, challenge me, seduce me,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Question me, inform me, teach me,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Learn from me, touch me, strike me,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Enable me, analyze me, judge me,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Forgive me, kiss me, speak to me,</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Destroy me and rebuild me</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I know that I would not be me</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Without you.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Let us get
drunk on our presence<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On our very
being, and that being<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Together.</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-71047390222206469902012-01-29T01:38:00.001-05:002012-02-01T02:44:36.196-05:00In the Presence of Greatness<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
IV. The Diving Post</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Lone and jutting from the wave brushed sea</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
I waited long for him to climb up me.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Once a summer he’d make a single trip</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
To my lonely beach to take a dip.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
He would swim a hundred feet from shore</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
To take a single dive and not one more.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
III. The Pier Column</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Barnacled, I raised my load so light</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
In my row I stood so true and right</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
And once a month she’d be coming down</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
To the coast by this fast dying town.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
She’d walk the planks past me down to the end</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
And watch the sea pass by just like a friend.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
II. The Evergreen</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
A blaze of green I stood so proud and tall</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Until that day when my turn came to fall.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
A man came with an eye patch and a brace</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
And looked at me with sun upon his face.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
He felled me there, in land becoming stark</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
And took off his glove to touch my gnarled bark.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I. The Sapling</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Awake with waiting till my time would come</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
To be between his finger and his thumb</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
And from his bag of forest he grabbed me</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
To place me in the soil to form a tree. </div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Upon a stump nearby, he sat to eat</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
And shed some silent tears into his meat. </div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
V. The Carving</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Now I stand upon a shelf austere</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
With memories in moments through the years.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
She found me there along the beach one day</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
A chunk of driftwood, weathered, dried and grey. </div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
She carved and whittled something out of me,</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Something always waiting for her to see.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-4661227905754664082011-10-05T01:50:00.002-04:002012-02-01T02:45:15.046-05:00I Made Myself...<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
I made myself an island</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And carved its edges mild</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I made myself an island</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
But It still became the wild</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I made myself an island</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Safe from all the waves</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I made myself an island</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Where I’ll dig my grave</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I made myself an island</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And it stands here still, alone</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I made myself an island</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
When I really want a home</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I made myself an island</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
And my walls became the sea</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
I made myself an island</div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Oh Lord what’s become of me?</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-71794062460996383152011-09-30T02:09:00.000-04:002011-09-30T02:09:55.206-04:00I Defy Despair<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst">
I defy despair </div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
till the moment after my last breath</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
takes me elsewhere.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
I defy despair</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
in the midst of turmoils</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
economic, environmental and emotional</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
I defy it</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
when all I own is dust</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
when all I know is gone</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
when all I love has passed</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
away</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
I defy despair</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
I defy it when</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
those in charge act like children</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
when suffering spreads like a wound</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
when the rational seems defeated by madness</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
when the voices of children</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
starved and helpless</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
go unanswered</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
I defy despair</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
And I do not defy it with anger</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
I do not fling impotent rage into the wind</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
I do not shout at the sky</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Or rail against the stars</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
I defy it quietly and simply</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
serenely and constantly</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
persistently and resolutely</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
with that powerful</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
four letter word...</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Hope.</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Just try to defy that.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-85723824662395290652011-09-27T18:00:00.000-04:002011-09-27T18:00:01.804-04:00She Walked BetweenWho walked between my winters<br />
And left a warm impression there<br />
Who walked between these islands<br />
Reminding me of bridges fair<br />
<br />
Who scaled the walls so frozen<br />
Who added life to all the bare<br />
And plain facades I'd chosen<br />
To mask me from a luring stare<br />
Of eyes that keep their secrets<br />
While calling one to care<br />
<br />
Who left before the winter<br />
Could freeze her anywhere.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-36251943353988343002011-09-26T23:21:00.000-04:002011-09-26T23:21:17.419-04:00Odysseus' Folly<br />
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Bind me to the mast I said</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Bind me good and tight</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Plug your ears with wax I said</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">And don’t give into fright</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Release me not till we’re long past</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">If I order or give plea</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Loose me not until we’ve gone</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Leave me bound here to this tree</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">We passed that fateful isle then</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">They were close enough to hear</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">The singing pulled at my frail soul</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Its beauty brought forth a tear</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">I fought, I strove and tore my flesh</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">The ropes they bit and burned</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">I screamed, I wailed, I begged to leave</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">My efforts my crew just spurned</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">And when we passed away from there</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">I felt the loosing my mind</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">But the soul in me was rent in two</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">There’s no rest that I can find</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">I should have passed another way</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">I should have closed my ears</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">I should have stopped my wondering</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">That’s caused these restless years</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">And now I’m home; my journey’s done</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">I’m with family and my friends</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">I've battled monsters, men and seas</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Yet the haunting song still rends</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
I hear it in the ocean’s waves</div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">It’s hinted in the tide</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">The wind suggests its melody</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">From their voices I can’t hide</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">I’m called to cross the barren seas</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">I’m drawn to the rocky shore</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">I stand upon the brink of doom</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">And question what it was for</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Why did I need to hear their song?</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">And pass so near that isle?</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">The sirens they are calling still</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Across the watery miles</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">If I had stayed in ignorance</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">I may have saved my bliss</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">But now at home I’m wandering</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Looking for what I miss</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">Some songs are much too wonderful</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">For these human ears to hear</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">And some are much too terrible</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">To add knowledge to innocent fear</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">I went through veiled and evil lands</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">I traversed the dim shadowed shore</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">I heard a dire forbidden song</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">’Fore Lethe I’ll rest nevermore</span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">(This is an old one I never published on this blog for some reason. It seemed appropriate to post it now with the <a href="http://gooseberrygoespoetic.blogspot.com/2011/09/poetry-picnic-wk-6-stories-from.html">mythology theme over at the garden</a>.)</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-14829022476767697482011-09-26T00:58:00.001-04:002011-09-26T01:01:13.043-04:00What Creeps By My Bedside<br />
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Self-pity crept in by the bedside</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Laid a languorous hand on my back</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
And pressed me into smothering covers</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
I fought back not a bit and sunk</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Into the soft, motionless depths</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Of a savoured sorrow</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
That tasted dry and overwrought</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Bringing me back to restless immobility</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
What tossing and turning did this ship—</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Myself—endure upon the sea of sleeplessness</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
I fought with rage and pride against a foe</div>
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That dared to offer out a hand to save me</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
“Grab hold and live!”</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
He cried from the deck</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
And still I screamed futile rage and sorrow</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Gurgling against the waves</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
“Give me this!”</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
I shouted</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
“Give me one wrong to remember;</div>
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One grudge to nurture.”</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
But he stole the dead weight from my hands</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
And carried me to shore</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Back to my bedside</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
Where self-pity lay defeated</div>
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<br /></div>
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Then instead of weeping</div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">
I gave in to sleeping.</div>
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<br /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-21947511787230237302011-08-08T22:24:00.001-04:002011-08-09T13:13:56.708-04:00The Wreck<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">The waves of the sea flow unknowingly</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Where graceful ships once sailed</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Where swimming backs glistened in setting sun</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Where dolphins and turtles swam</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"> And still the waves come.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">The waves have no memories</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Not like the land and the sea-floor</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Memories can’t be written in the waves -</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Like they are in the rock -</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Or strewn across the water</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Like they are in the sandy bed of the ocean</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"> And still the waves come.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">The ocean keeps her secrets below the surface</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Men get caught up in their reflections</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">While beneath lies something greater</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">In the shallows or the depths</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">More mysteries are hidden</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Than the ever-undulating surface tells</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"> And still the waves come.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Near the white sand shallows<br />
Of a palm speckled beach</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Lies a secret there for any to see</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Anyone who looks deeper</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">And has an aluminum lung</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"> And still the waves come.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Past a carpet of timid garden eels</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">And schools of shimmering jacks</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">And flashing barracuda</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Is the waves’ hulking secret</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Weighed down by bright orange fans of coral</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">And the black, yellow and green of feather stars</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">It is the wreck</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"> And still the waves come.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">What was once a ship, now a secret garden</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Flowing soft corals and multicoloured hard corals</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Darting gobies and ponderous groupers</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Fish of every colour on a painter’s pallet</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Grazing turtles</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">And slowly patrolling sharks</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Tired out from a night’s hunting. </span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: .5in;"><span lang="EN-US">And still the waves come.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">This secret garden</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">This Atlantis beneath forgetful waves</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Is hardly touched by man and rarely seen</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">An oasis in the underwater desert</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"> And still the waves come.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">But if you go where the waves can’t remember</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">And where the storms have long passed</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Where the turtles and the white-tips roam</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">You will see a slice of Eden</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Buried from man forever</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Beneath waves with no memory</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"> And still they come. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-34337941866527376622011-08-02T21:42:00.001-04:002011-08-02T21:56:23.006-04:00Even Pinocchio Knew His Maker<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The puppets mock the puppeteers</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">not noticing their strings</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They dance and hop and raise their voice to sing...</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All they know are peers</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of wood and wire</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of paint and polish</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of termite hollowed ash</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of ventriloqu’d voices</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and mimicked choices</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that with their pride does clash.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“We are the kings</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We hold the strings!”</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They obediently say</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">not knowing who in the air</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">above holds fatal sway.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don’t you see the enemy?</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He wishes you to dance</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">your time away until you say</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it was nothing but mere chance.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don’t you see the enemy?</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He wishes you to hide</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">him behind a myth or blind</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">tradition that you deride.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And what if sin and evil</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">are more than dated words?</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What if they hold meaning</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">more than the absurd</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">notion of a god that acts like a child—</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">notion of a god that is anything but mild—</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For what does this race earn</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">if not cruel death</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by turning on itself and ignoring the rest?</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We rape and burn and pillage</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We steal and break and kill</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A child takes a village</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But one father has no will</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We sow our own destruction</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And arm our future foes</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We revel in corruption</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To what end? No one knows</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And all us so-called-people</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who think ourselves so good</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With hubris higher than a steeple</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the wayside we all stood</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The spectators are guilty</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The watchers did the crime</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The reclining ones have blood-stained hands</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We all live in the grime</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not one of us is sinless</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We all hold equal share</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We can make ourselves all kinless</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or admit there’s burdens to bear</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we see that we’re all brothers</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And sisters straight from birth</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We’ll be halfway to discovering</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our purpose here on earth.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-37572877385606135322011-07-31T03:19:00.001-04:002011-07-31T03:20:02.050-04:00Were I to Scoop Out a Star...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Were I to scoop out a star</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">from an isolated sky</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and place it in your hands...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Were I to feed you its brilliance</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">spoonful by spoonful...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Were I to feed you Polaris</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">or the gem in Orion's Belt...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Were I to feed you the Lion's tail</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">or the entire milky way...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Were I to wait</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">until the glowing bits</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">went down inside your slender neck</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and gathered in your stomach...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Were I to wait</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">until your body absorbed all the sparkling pieces</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and your heart pumped the light through your veins...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Were I to wait</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">'till your eyelashes sparkled</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and every strand of your hair shone</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you would not be more beautiful than you are in this moment:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the blanket of sunlight that embraces you</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">with your hair down</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">with your eyes lit by laughter</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">with your laugh lines tickling your temples</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and your smile breaking my heart</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(You shatter me so gently</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">See the pieces sparkle)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-17976670911074211802011-07-26T23:36:00.000-04:002011-07-26T23:36:25.195-04:00At the End of Their Conquest<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">The conquerors looked around</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">At all their ashen mess</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">They stood there all quite silently</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">Not one to call them blessed</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">And from the ashes came the wail:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">"We conquered our brothers, our sisters, our selves</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">We conquered our conscience and in our hearts delved</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">A dark little ship without oar or sail</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">For Acheron, Phlegethon, Cocytus and Styx</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">And most of all Lethe!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br />
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">To memories nix."</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-76794487578717180522011-07-25T00:08:00.003-04:002011-07-25T00:38:26.535-04:00When Your Eyes Are Green<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In the dim light</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Or the rain</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Or when you’re looking away from me</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And I gaze aslant into your eyes</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They appear to be green...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Not the bright green of sun kissed grass</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Or the dark green of alpine forests</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But the green at the surface of deep waters</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I want to lose myself in those waters</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I want to dive into those eyes and never come up for air</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I want to explore the deeps that the surface hints at</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I want to find all there is of you, there, in your eyes</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Find it</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And embrace it as my own</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But who can own the sea?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What man can claim the waters he treads as his?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">No, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The more he watches the sea</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The more he pursues her</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The more he dives in</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The more he finds </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That it is the sea that owns him...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The sea embraces him</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The sea holds him up</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The sea threatens to drown him</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And the storms of the sea can always cast him on some deserted shore</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Never to find home again...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">No,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Man does not own the sea</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Though he may claim her</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Though he may sail across the surface </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And gaze at the shores</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Though he may hunt the deeps</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And find the hidden places</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Though he may declare his love for her</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He may never own her.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For the sea is free</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And fair</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And unfathomable.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">So it is better not to quest for ownership</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is better to make no claim</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Or conquest</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But to remain in awe</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And wonder</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Swimming</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And hoping that the inexplicable may be:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That when that dive is taken</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That dangerous dive down deep</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">You find yourself in the fathoms</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Not needing to breathe</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-42000903940150504912011-07-11T01:46:00.000-04:002011-07-11T01:46:14.478-04:00I Stayed My Eyes<div class="MsoNormal">I stayed my eyes from closing down</div><div class="MsoNormal">I stayed my head from rest</div><div class="MsoNormal">I stayed my mind from thinking till</div><div class="MsoNormal">I could cope with all this mess...</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">But all I do is wait and watch</div><div class="MsoNormal">And all I do is waste</div><div class="MsoNormal">While all I do is passing time</div><div class="MsoNormal">To seek a little taste...</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The mess it stays upon my eyes</div><div class="MsoNormal">And it stays upon my head</div><div class="MsoNormal">It stays when I go down to rest</div><div class="MsoNormal">It will stay here till I’m dead</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">But when I’ve left a question hangs</div><div class="MsoNormal">Above my final peace:</div><div class="MsoNormal">Did this one, just like the rest,</div><div class="MsoNormal">Make this mess of man increase?</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-50510940359769173492011-07-01T03:42:00.002-04:002011-07-01T03:52:13.270-04:00The Rooster and the RaceThe rooster crowed thrice<br />
and I remembered...<br />
<br />
I should have run<br />
I should have run the race<br />
I should have run to win<br />
I knew about the race<br />
I knew I was in it<br />
I knew about the prize<br />
But somewhere<br />
Between<br />
<br />
Ready...<br />
<br />
Set...<br />
<br />
And go.<br />
<br />
I forgot the finish<br />
<br />
I forgot the line<br />
Between racing and ran<br />
Between the race and what's after<br />
I somehow forgot the purpose of it all<br />
<br />
And the rooster crowed thrice.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1759927492081931630.post-72050387072489238362011-04-20T17:22:00.002-04:002011-04-20T17:26:08.147-04:00The History of a Book<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I love used books</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">with their crackling spines</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and musky scent</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">their easily turned pages</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and caressingly rough texture.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But most of all I love it</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">when there’s a name </span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">written with care on the front inside cover.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Or when some handwritten note or dedication</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">remains like a precious artefact </span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">speaking of another place, another time</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">some memory of a person I never met</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">some legacy of one I may never know.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I wonder where they are now</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What kind of life do they live?</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Do they have children?</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Do they have a warm place to call their own?</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Do their friends call them often?</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I wonder what caused them to get rid of the book</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Did it get accidently thrown in with garage sale items?</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Did they grow tired of the words?</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Or did it simply mock them from the shelf?</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">—Saying, <i>You’ll never read me again</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">you never have the time to read anymore.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I wonder if perhaps they died</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and the book was sold or given away</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and passed from hand to hand</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">until it found its way into mine</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to share with me some piece of that person’s life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What influence did the book have on them?</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Did it make them cry?</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Did it make them angry?</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Did it make them want to share it with the world?</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I write my name</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">right below theirs</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">never crossing out the history of a book.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The book is mine now</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">but it will not always be.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It could pass down generations</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">leaving only the fading list of handwritten names</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the yellowing pages</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and the creases in the spine</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">as memories.</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I hope that one day someone will pick up an old book</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">see my name</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and wonder who I am.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7