I walked along Morningside Heights to
the place where the road ended. I was
on my way home from The Free School*
which my children attend on my way to
my apartment on West 121St. where our
apartment courtesy of Teachers College
was. It was late afternoon in Spring and
I was feeling blue but that is another story
Just as I was about to turn West I saw on the
sidewalk a bunch of household trash seeming
remnants of a move. I looked closer and
saw three framed degrees from long ago
The last was a doctoral degree. It was then
I realized that it probably belonged to some
old Columbia professor who had died- out
living anyone who cared. Sad but New York
Is full of sadness and the ambitions of a life
are realized and expire and there is no one to
know what was achieved now worthless to all
who come after. Life is like a war with so many
unknown soldiers who's glory if any
was never here, never here forever
But I suppose we all secretly know
We live lives as mysterious strangers
Known in this world known but to God
*Children's Free School A parent Coop back in the 70s
Oct 27, 2022
Oct 27, 2022 at 4:30 PM UTC
I walked along Morningside Heights to
the place where the road ended. I was
on my way home from The Free School*
which my children attend on my way to
my apartment on West 121St. where our
apartment courtesy of Teachers College
was. It was late afternoon in Spring and
I was feeling blue but that is another story
Just as I was about to turn West I saw on the
sidewalk a bunch of household trash seeming
remnants of a move. I looked closer and
saw three framed degrees from long ago
The last was a doctoral degree. It was then
I realized that it probably belonged to some
old Columbia professor who had died- out
living anyone who cared. Sad but New York
Is full of sadness and the ambitions of a life
are realized and expire and there is no one to
know what was achieved now worthless to all
who come after. Life is like a war with so many
unknown soldiers who's glory if any
was never here, never here forever
But I suppose we all secretly know
We live lives as mysterious strangers
Known in this world known but to God
*Children's Free School A parent Coop back in the 70s