The Will at Forty

Reason is no poetry

Nor syllogism a poem.

Feeling looks for verse,

Like will needs a body and a birth,

And a curse for infinite passion.

But when passion has eloped with your hair

And you ask yourself

Is it too early to take stock of the frame

in terms of the fragments of those lost ‘present’,

the cadavers of moments, called ‘Age’?

Or hold up to the long endured figments

And just pass over the Grand Gaze.

Your desire is no regret

But a hope for recurrence,

May be to re-live the follies of youth

In each ‘Cycle’ and forever.

As each cycle, we are told, whispers a secret

That each of its truth is not ‘the truth’

 



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