one second frozen in time
all the smiling faces
frozen in mock happiness
not kept
at being tricked by life
at growing - old
for reassurance. Avoid
the mirrors with their
exaggerated smile lines
smile lines / frozen lines / pain
lines / lines, lines, lines / don’t
think of them as wrinkles
flowers growing from the box
of bulbs imported through the
mail for planting last fall
planted gently with love, snap, snap,
don’t think of how one fall
it will by your turn to be planted
we still bond together, you in your
village at the fire cooking and tending
your children.
museum glass feeling your life rush
into me for one more moment of
squeezed out existence
lost loved ones. My tears,
your tears, flowing through
centuries / to spill down my cheeks
experiencing the wonder as
you push forth your newborn child
electricity courses / I gasp as
alright ma’am?” And I, so
overcome, fall in a heap
on the floor whimpering
Nothing ever changes,
We are all
frozen in time!
POETRY:
A TRIBUTE TO LIFE,
SELECTED WORKS OF S. E. ROSE, VOL I
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