Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Western Valentine

What a true poem perceives

cannot actually be written down

but still some vain attempt

to speak a few words of grief

is made where memory

once stood trustworthy

witness no more

how else can great truths

living on distant planets

weave pictures of all

our old weaknesses into trees

and flowers as we pass

or the animals poor

creatures we one by one

sacrifice who once

held the poem as friend

go on?

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