Bornlivedie
What did you expect?
That purple shoelaces
and thrift store T-shirts
would really make you
young again?
She just said to me, she said:
“Not you, you’re too young”
In a room full of greyhairs
bifocals, wheelchairs
and stiff, halting gaits,
it’s not much of a comfort
Who do you trust?
Not the words on the TV screen
or the smiling face in the magazine
When music is the last refuge
we hide inside ourselves
a tiny box within which
‘verses are born, die, are born anew
Humans (like the lady said)
(like some other things, which shall
remain nameless)
really are so much
bigger on the inside
Therein lies the beauty
and the tragedy
and the comedy
of it all.
– T.H. (Patchwork Journal, 05.24.11)
