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Open Poetry #25

Consequences

morefiah
Member

since 2003-03-26

Posts 150
Spanish Town, Jamaica

0 posted 2003-04-10 12:25 PM

In the comfort of my youth;
The years when
Life wandered before me
on a seemingly endless road,
I passed an old man
begging on the street,
Palm outstretched
his eyes staring sightlessly.

I was in the prime
of my ignorance
For I thought the world
was mine to hold
in the palm of my hand.
So I sauntered along
and swept past him
without a second thought.

"And why shouldn't I?"
So I asked the distraction
that was my conscience;
"I know him not.
He isn't my responsibility,
What did he do with his youth?
He must have been careless.
Didn't he know that
he would get old someday?
Let him suffer.
He created his consequences."
And I put him (and his age)
away from me.

Now here I am:
An old man,
begging on the street,
palm outstretched;
Sight left me long ago.
A curse upon youth!
For youth is treacherous
It left me... abandoned
without any warning;
Draining away,
leaving me sapped,
weak and helpless.
But mourn not for me,
be pitiless...
For I created my
consequences.

Garfield

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