My Wish
There was a time to see beyond the stars
Then I could choose one at leisure
Slightly asunder,
uninhabited and forlorn
Then I could sway it free…
There was a way to circle around
square discarded figures
in search of time
Now I have to dress lifeless limbs
in time for burial
Now I see nothing in symbols
My thoughts scatter and hide
in craters
deep enough to swallow unsated fancies
Now I lace stolen shadows
unhidden and prominent inside
Oh how childlike promises merge
with drained accomplishments
A faultless image could prize fables from
distant dreams
Today they all carry my yoke
An ensemble of cheers and disgrace
Resembles fate and lost embrace
Oh how I wish my childhood
would return
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