Nothing by Daniel PetersonHow much has changed
since Nothing never stayed the same?
Walls; white, waiting walls
for the coming of their fall
never came, but winter did
sure as a thumbnail tack
makes careless holes, monthly holes
to mark the time.
Cornerstones greet new centuries
a sedentary resolve,
not a word to learn, nor a word to say
but no less a statement
of memories, long and gone
fast and forgotten,
tulip-memories of clouds and beams
unspeakable patterns, midair.
The same puddle places, cyclic, remain
after rainy many dreary days.
And sunlit freedom never was so sublime
as alone, with a thought,
for this world, a witness to keep
the erstwhile work that comes complete.
Faces grow long, and then short? again
hair grows out, and then in? again.
And now, I am gone.
03/19/2003 Posted on 04/24/2003 Copyright © 2024 Daniel Peterson
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