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Inspirations
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0 posted 2000-03-19 11:06 PM



How unfair
the responsibility life places upon society
or are they the responsibilities society has placed
in our lives?

nevertheless, the countless hours spent
at the nine to five
commanding our attention
in return for a title
and the coveted American dollar

and all the while
my wife and child
grow older
a day closer to death

how morbid and bitter I must sound
but in my searching
I have not found
neither rhyme nor reason
in conducting a poem
written about life

sure there is love
sure there are memories
found in moments
Saturdays and vacations
given annual holidays
still which I covet

but a million times more
I would rather in return
share a meal or even just a snack
in the school yard playground
with my very own
on a Wednesday afternoon

but these times
traded instead
for working lunches and
needless yet necessary lines
with fellow associates
also walking like living dead

or were they called deadlines
which greater established
corporate identities
nevertheless, having no
real relevance

and now as a bearded old man
bearing the title of grandfather man
I wonder where the years
have gone

left only
or rather left
with shared memories
I will forever treasure
or however long
forever may last
in the remaining days
left in this temple
to reminisce

how quickly time passes
though my words are only
ordinary sounds
from another old man
living in a house
built on common ground

I regret only
moments chosen
not worthy to be placed
in my time in a bottle

time being so very precious
tomorrow guaranteed to no one
as the Good Book says

and only yesterdays left to judge
our exchanges for time.


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