Monday, August 12, 2002

Been damn busy today -

Been damn busy today - but not too busy to unload another poem: this one I wrote in high school while I was working at a department store (I actually wrote it on the back of a piece of cash register paper!):

The days of light and laughter now have passed
and nothing now is left for us to praise
but stoicism to maintain the fast
and better memories of yesterdays.
Upon the stars did we direct our gaze,
with folly-blunted arrows did we shoot:
now, falling short, we wander from our ways
and groan about misfortunes we recruit.
Discussion of the way it was is moot;
our words become to us a mortal maze
wherein we charge at arrows on the ground
or drop the cause, to lie and sleep and laze.
The light and laughing days may not have passed
but it is up to us how long they last.