This Poem was Submitted By: Wayne R. Leach On Date: 2004-02-21 15:09:47 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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OLD FOOL

In the stillness of 8:30 PM I sit after reading some words unconsciously and look past the white walls the green drapery cliffs into the picture window mirror with its lamp and flickering candle beside the old fool glancing occasionally into my reality. I turn the TV off until a moment called tomorrow with its scatter rugs and hardwood lessons they may bring. A baby cries somewhere in this room called tonight with its unbrightness following the flickering of the candle into an old fool's eyes that seem to constantly say, "to hell with yesterday", but who knows of love, escape, and that eternity can reach only this moment... the baby yawns, probably as bored as the old yesterday's fellow who glances at some yesterday's tree lit with all those colored stars flickering and winking smartly while hearing the January night quietly passing through its tunnel. Tomorrow will never begin to end in its businesslike bustle, pretending to be a day older. The furnace breathes its hotness onto the insideness of the cliffs and the old fool is warm, almost loving the comfort disguising the aches assuredly to come into this eternal night of now. The baby fusses for mama; the old fool pauses, fearing the certainty of uncertainty and perplexed by the distance of the images in his window of now.

Copyright © February 2004 Wayne R. Leach

Additional Notes:
Published in my fourth and latest book AGAINST THE TIDE, Goose River Press, Friendship, Maine. (2003)


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