ODE TO THE WORLD

I THOUGHT I KNEW

I am forsaken by what I knew

Memories lost, consumed by woes

I blame age – an obvious clue

For crooked gait and unseen blows

Now I’ve lost the need to boast

My breath taken on a hill’s descent

Steady until pain plays host

To life where esteem is quite self-spent

I stumble, knowing that no one cares

The production of my life’s long goals

Like walking in a land that dares

Trodding the blossoms of blooming coals

It’s not that I knew enough to miss

I live a life of fulfilled dreams

I trod old blossoms of untold bliss

But guilt remains the gift that screams

Shaking me awake in another land

Where Truth lies dormant under greed

Where evil and plastic go hand in hand

Destroying a World I’ve come to NEED

Photo by Yasser Mokhtarzadeh on Unsplash

g.d.feldman 11/21