Jack Touchet

Jack Touchet Aug 2011

Of Fear

To sit in fear of the world,
Is to sit idly by,
Offering nothing to the day,
Though taking nothing all the same.

To sit in ignorance of your fear,
Is to pass blindly by who you are,
Offering nothing to yourself,
And taking nothing all the same.

To act in knowledge of your fear,
That is to be enlightened,
To take what you need from life,
And from yourself all the same.

Jack Touchet Aug 2011

An Ode To Love

A man sits alone in the dark,
Asking nothing of the world,
"Again," he weeps,
"All I love turns to gold.", he smiles,
"Afar sits a person,
As lovely as the stars in the sky."
Around the bend sits a girl,
As lovely as all the world,
Asking only to be loved,
And she is.

Jack Touchet Aug 2011

Like Time

Like time we pass,
Sands in the hourglass,
We fall and fall,
Till upturned and we restart all

Like time we passed,
So many questions we leave unasked,
Turning away from what we don't know,
With our faces as giddy as fresh snow

We ask not what happens,
For our fear of life hastens,
The discord we view as not folly,
Though in the clouds our thoughts often lolly

Like time we pass,
Taking with us something crass,
Though beautiful in it's solitude,
Terrifying in it's multitude

— The End —