Curse and BlessingI remember too much Memories of times but two years past Cause an ache that will not let goCurse and Blessing
Sometimes at day others at night My memories find me Unerringly, inexorably, unflinchingly They do not claw, they do not rip They lie there within And ache and ache and ache
This is not pain, nor even longing Just an ache that will not let go My thoughts return again and again To faces and sounds, the occasional name And remind me all my days That they will never be again
A man wrote that life is wasted on the living Another of youth on the yo
Endings and BeginningsEnds and beginnings And places we cannot go I sit here and sigh For times I haven’t knownEndings and Beginnings
I read the stories I hear the rhymes The meanings are not lost But twist in my mind
Where are they going Where have they been I see where they are And I’ll see them again
But not always Do they return in time A comet seen once That passes before you die
The firmament shifts The seas wash away The world is drifting Nothing can stay
My verse is tired No function or form Ever ephemer
