Lonely Sojourner

We are ever dying to one world and being born into another. - Thoreau

from a seemingly innocuous, immune distance

a guileful smile 'pon your braided face

not even bothering to bend down

you tossed a sterile flower at my ephemeral grave

as you silently remarked to yourself, "at least he didn't suffer"

you always were a slick bluffer

and a slow learner

not even realizing that I'm not there

i'm just a lonely sojourner

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Author's Note

"When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Lydia Shutter]

A sojourner in a sometime grave? Hmmm...this one has me baffled. "At least he didn't suffer" would indicate he is dead....or maybe the relationship has ended and he is not suffering THAT! In any case, as always, your poetry is thought provoking and enjoyable. Lydi**

[Pete]

ha. anyone who claimed to really "know" me would know that i am person of faith believing in eternal life. thanks lyd ... :)

[Lydia Shutter]

Well, obviously I am not someone who knows you well. I hope you are right about eternal life. I guess we will all find out.