Nothing Seems To Last Another Collaboration With Eileen and me

This Is a Tanka written by Eileen Manassain and reimagined by me by adding every other verse in order to create Lyrics we could put to music. please visit Eileen recent page and enjoy This poem in it's original Form. I want to Thank Eileen for the privilege of working with her on these poems Nothing seems to last The present now the past flowers weep faded petals Like flaking paint or rusty metal A faint scent lingers Upon the barren tips of fingers once blooming in bright color Now appear quite smothered My poems have lost their appeal No longer things seem real emotions wither And darkness comes hither Wilted words whirl in the wind Until they blow my way again bereft of beauty Void of duty I strive to remain rooted In a world so polluted hoping for droplets of love Droplets from above