Is it desperate to
hope someone
is looking at
you?

dry
if you take
and you don’t put in.
Love grows stale
as a garbage pail

Everything runs
taut
if you pull
in the direction
it’s not

Everything runs
efficiently
if  you grease the wheel
before it squeaks

Everything runs
out
the timer is set
as soon as we’re born –
a place of no return

Ephemeral is life
Insecure is its tenure
Like the breath of a buffalo
In wintertime, it roars and gone
Like shadow, it is gone with sunset
Like flower, it fades away
Like grass, it withers away
Life, a flash of a firefly!