Never Yours To Lose

Like eating your own cooking,
do you favor what you write

Do the words digest completely,
the stove again to light

As you walk that final mile,
in those shabby cobblers shoes

Will you then embrace at last
—what was never yours to lose

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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