The Antherian
Hello, I’m pleased to meet you.
Don’t bother with my name.
I am like any other—
are not all men the same?
There’s nothing in my thinking.
There’s emptiness in my eyes.
There’s echoes in my hollow heart.
There’s death within my sighs.
I am no longer one who lives,
that time has passed me by.
I am no longer one who gives,
after I learned the lie.
You will not long recall me.
O please! You think I care?
You will not long here stall me.
I appraise, but ne’er stare.
Call me the Antherian.
It means nothing to you.
And then at last a name will pair,
with meaning that is true.
20 May 2016
Copyright © J. I. Thomas F. | Year Posted 2016
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