Kit Kelen #1359 - minor homage to canon, scene and vanity of human wishes

1359

minor homage to canon, scene and vanity of human wishes

lines from the back of the bottom drawer

I love the way I don’t exist

and won’t have ever been

so many differences I’ve not made

and never twice the same

here are the eggs, who knows which hen?

hatched, counted and so soon despatched

nor are you, were you, never will

I know that you’re not reading this

still, tooth and claw, I diminish myself

it was a life’s work

I did not shirk

how very few will nurse this curse

world out like a candle

when?

we are why caring?

why rehearse?

here’s to a mill of grist!

as under a glass

look up to see

a magnified eternity

I know I won’t be missed

still I must say it darkly