They're short, yes. So I give you three of them. Yay. |
On Youth There was a time when I was immortal When I knew everything And anything was possible You were there You stood with me on the verge of reality We dipped out toes into the pool of lost innocence And watched the sun set over the valley of time Secure, we were That tomorrow would never come And that the faces we saw in the mirror Would be there to greet us for eternity On Love There once was a girl Whom I loved with all my heart She made me want to write poems And read them to her by candlelight I wanted to know her every thought I wanted to investigate all her secret places I wanted to grow old with her and die with her Then the light turned green and we both drove off Into our separate words To this day I wonder what her name was On Death One day I needed to kill some time Before I had to be where I had to be It happened to be That the place I had to be Was next to an old cemetery So I wandered among the graves Enjoying the peace of the spring afternoon among the dead When I came across a large grave bearing a Japanese name And a samurai crest A strange find in rural New Jersey I took a sheet of origami paper out of my bag Fashioned a crane And left it perched atop the stone Knowing that I was adding a final note to a story I would never know |