A Poem a Day...

I've been writing a lot--almost a poem every day, sometimes more than one, sometimes other things. It's mostly rambling and scribbles (sometimes I will actually just scribble for a while). Most of it is crap, and the rest is usually too personal for me to be comfortable releasing to the internet. However, I have a few gems I'd like to share. Here is one of them.

Don’t ask me to let you go.

I will not do it now.

I will let you go when we’ve lived

this out, this grinding,

future-driven life. I will

let you go when eternity shines

from the tunnel’s light behind us.

I will let you go when I can’t help

but have forgotten who we are.

Don’t ask me before we have watched

the sun set

and the stars break through

black curtains of the night.

Don’t ask me

before the actors bow

and the lights come up for good.

I won’t do it unless

the children are grown;

we’ve taken care of it all.

Don’t ask me to watch you leave

before the end has come.