To Borrow
Answering with phrases loaned…
a paradox recalled
The choices, nouns and pronouns,
all verbs to rise or fall
Old questions freed, all doubt besieged,
defined and then dethroned
The power in each chosen word,
to borrow—not to own
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)
Copyright © Kurt Philip Behm | Year Posted 2019
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