yes, ee

Everyone said, ‘I’m sure she’s been true…’

To thine own self

How hard do we try

Or how close do we come

To that hazy future

Imagined, but unable to reach

How much of that inability

Is holding too narrowly to one course

Pursuing nothing more than mirage

As drowning in the waters at our feet

Until submerged and

Starting a new life

We are reinvented

Not so much

Maybe reincarnated

Still a version of the same basic model

Perhaps more knowing or understanding

Always still trying

Or

Does this all mean, I haven’t

Learned

Anything of the world

And myself next to it

Occasionally within it

Comes a time

When choosing is the way

Since feeling is first; yes ee

But after comes the

Will

To do or not

To hold on by letting go

And as we grow to fill the space

Left by absence

Do We become more

Or only, do I?

Does she

Can she

Remember the love we shared

I’m still tending the fire

Letting the embers smolder

I remember the inferno of

The other