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Lines From the Midlife

I winged with the doves
in my unbounded boyhood.
Those rainbows and the contrails
still stay in the soul.
I sweated several times 
but that never lost me sleep.

Now anxieties sprout 
in the sweat.
I lose me 
in the parching forebodings.
Conditioned by the symptoms,
both heard and read,
I die again,
of heart attack this time.

I remember
a swarm of fireflies 
decorating my dark spring.

My midlife fruits
(flowered in the torrid weather)
have ripened. 
I glimpse an infinite emptiness 
in the waning light.
Even the dreams transform 
strangely,
sometimes with the presence 
of the departed.
Something somewhere
will remain on nothing.


First published in The Literary Hatchet

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020




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