Is There a Parallel?

Have you ever considered
that election years
are leap years?

Is there something poetic
in the essence of it?

Do we leap into
a new era
with vigor
or
with unthinking?

Do we forge ahead
with the familiar
or
risk on the new?

Is there no risk
in the familiar,
what is your
point of view?

Tradition has said
that Sadie may prey
upon the man
of her loving
on leap year day.

To be topsy-turvy
in the air of her ways
instead of awaiting
his question
on any given day.

Is it coincidence
we get an extra day
to ponder
what life may be like
in the coming days
of wonder?

©February 28, 2004