“Whatever you do in life will be very insignificant, but it’s very important that you do it.”— from the movie Remember Me.

I don’t particularly agree. Every thing we do has an effect and whether or not we know it, that effect can be far-reaching. Question is: What type of effect do you want to leave?

 

 

 

I will not die young-

be like cactus, master to penury,

something where all about is nothing:

devoid of fear and untamed worries,

but no less fickle than this vain earthling;

be like succulent, plump berries,

the hallmark of vitality,

lending rich tastes to whomever ‘merries’

yet courting the end with finality.

For all this lasts but for a while

sure as the the ephemera of youth.

 

 

You see, these hands still won’t help another

to bear the sometimes unfair burden of life;

these ears fear to hear- neither

sorrow nor the cacophony of strife;

and these gateways to the depths of my soul,

the abyss of my being, see but darkness of the engulfing light-

though wide open they still shun their call;

And this heart, this engine of joy and might

burns dark icy fires, freezing by the mile

and sparing no expense to self sooth.

 

 

I fear the end, but I refuse to relent!

I refuse to sow my words to the wind

to be shredded and scattered, carried to nothingness;

I refuse to my mark, my footprints in the sand

to be washed away by the unforgiving, unrelenting tide of time-

to be washed to the fringes of memory;

I refuse to dance to the tune of what is

but to the infectious melody of what can be.

I refuse to die young.

 

 

 

 

 

…………………………………..Mini-anthology: Hepatica…………………………