Ouroboros

Be ye as wise as serpents' (Matthew 10: 16) you live long enough everything runs together like water and sand the circle where the serpent coiled at the edge of the sea seems less than stepping on moonlight and holding a child you live long enough everyone stirs inside, your father, long dead remembers your face, Your first love breathes softly beside you in the dark you live long enough you'll know you loved even when you thought you were making love, eyes open and unmoved staring one way or everywhere but mostly sandward you live long enough you'll remember to breathe and wonder if you'll live forever a grasping, almost lovely, small-hearted thing you live long enough you'll slip into brightness you'llknow of incandescence and the long memory of the sky (Published Sketchbook, Sept/Oct 2010)