New Name Card
Brief beyond brief our passage here;
Our share of grief, time has marked clear.
It seems just then when youth did roar;
To understand what time was for.
Hindsight seems sure of that and this;
So insecure the path of bliss.
We, There and Then ventured beyond
The Why and When to dare upon.
Foresight less clear or even blur;
Feel anxious fear cast petty slurs.
The Now and Here needs clever tact;
Things don't look clear for each new act.
So much to say or think and do;
To fill each day with gainful woo.
So many seasons have we lived thus;
Times and reasons have turned to dust.
Now here we meet as if by chance;
In busy street where feet now prance.
Lost in the mists of old recalls;
New name card gist to share install.
We chat a bit of times that try;
Polite sure bits and then goodbye.
Success builds walls, sets strange from strange;
Cynics recall wide gap and change.
Our hairline tint has turned to grey;
Visage and mint, sculptured dismay.
We talk about the fond old times;
Jest chuckles out the changing chimes.
Just as quickly we banish scene;
Surely to be a dusty din!
A new name card is all that's left;
A life pitch hard in tray or shelf.
Someday if we chance upon name;
Think "If only..." things were the same.
Round and round we circle round
In strange, new grounds still lost yet found!
Such feeble ways to look back then;
Unsteady rays of way back when.
Leon Enriquez
02 Apr 2014
Singapore
Copyright © Leon Enriquez | Year Posted 2014
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