Sunday, May 16, 2010

tomorrow i will burn

My friends all seem older than me,
since I was born late in the cycle.

I suppose then they called us late bloomers.
Now they call us sensitive types.

Yes, I unfolded an untimely lotus,
blooming in whatever was left of the year.

I stand now at the top of the stair,
the last to descend from the attic.

I am merely one step away
from stepping free from these roots.

Maybe after then, I can write
a poem that contains no "i"

but tomorrow, i will burn.
an' tomorrow, we will burn.

Rivaling even the arid sun
in the ancient memory sky,

for the year has just tomorrow begun:
an' it will blaze all the gardens of indifference.


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