May 11, 2009

MEMORY'S EYE

by Stephen Jarrell Williams

I've done what's worth doing
in the darkness visible,

snarled in the tangle,
no way out,

long-lost father
with a lit match in his hand,

he's just an old me
waving goodbye,

smokey air,
dreamy silence,

sad satisfaction,
remembering peep-shows of life...

I'll soon let go the grip
hanging from the edge,

blue-lipped into the cooling dusk.

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