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borrow tomorrow
by Charlie Morgan
if i could just borrow tomorrow,
i'd return it like a book borrowed;
no dog-eared pages, no side-notes
of someone else's past or hopes.
i'll pore over it, making my meaning,
which will jibe true or be leaning
towards my dust-blown, checkered past,
of which pride is not the beginning or the last;
one of the truths self evident as is penned
in documents of Magna Carta or on the wind.
finally, when laid down, reclined and togged
in Kings gown of our selfish ego and flogged.
til then we all sleep in our skin and bones,
thinking were the banks and rivers. our own
making of deltas and guiding to their rewards
the water before it becomes ocean wards.
10/16/2008 Posted on 10/16/2008
Copyright © 2026 Charlie Morgan
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Alison McKenzie on 10/16/08 at 09:37 PM Sounds like an excellent idea, but...can you really return it pristine? I don't know, Charlie. Hehe. |
| Posted by Alisa Js on 10/16/08 at 11:20 PM I sure wish this was possible.. when you figure out how to do this... do let me know, ok? alisa ;-) |
| Posted by Mary Frances Spencer on 10/17/08 at 04:32 AM Would you really want to read ahead? MFS |
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