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Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
 May 2016 Harly Coward
Life
Someone call out to him
Before he does something senseless

Someone call out to him*
Because I won't
Responsibility, not after what he did to me
 May 2016 Harly Coward
Life
Love
 May 2016 Harly Coward
Life
In the garden

Lavenders grow
 May 2016 Harly Coward
Life
Rest
 May 2016 Harly Coward
Life
Tonight,
I will fall asleep,
to the sound of rain.
 May 2016 Harly Coward
Life
I feel alive
And calm
And collected
And in control

I really am, a terrible liar
 May 2016 Harly Coward
Life
Sense Me
 May 2016 Harly Coward
Life
Do you remember
when you said
that with me,
you felt?
 May 2016 Harly Coward
Life
I am made of flesh, blood and tragedy
 May 2016 Harly Coward
Life
I wonder what it is like to be you
With so much self-control,
You stop eating
With so few thoughts regarding the future,
You cut till' you bleed
With so few fears,
That they fill your entire life
 
I wonder what it is like to be you
With so much discipline,
You are pretty every single day
With so few thoughts regarding the future,
You constantly live in the world of now
With so few fears,
You can sweep them under the rug

I wonder what it is like to be me,
With so little self-control,
I let you slip through my fingers,
With so many thoughts about the future,
I can not be anything in the present,
With so many fears
I dare not act.
Her, she and me
 May 2016 Harly Coward
Life
I am not really afraid of death
I am sure he is a nice fellow
I hope so,
since no one’s returned
I cannot bear the thought that death won't be 'nice'
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