Hard Lessons
Happy is the man with no dog
for the memory of 'no'
walks obediently beside him
and that absence needs no leash.
Happy is the woman betrayed,
divorced from her long delusions.
Her aloneness sings now in her heart,
she learns to enjoy the hunger
it feeds her strength.
Sad is the person who clings,
who chases moonbeams
with butterfly nets.
Sad the person
who's 'wants' outrun their needs,
for their lamp may shrink,
become so small and hard to see.
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2022
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