Jan 2020
I’M NOT SURE WHAT LIFE IS FOR
I’m not sure what life is for.
It is not for things outside us:
avenues, avarice, Aspen’s
avalanches, acquisitions.
It may be for caresses, kisses,
tender touches, ceaseless
times of silence, holding,
murmurs. I think life is for
love and loving. Love is
more than time. It is the
Cosmos.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
I’m not sure what life is for.
It is not for things outside us:
avenues, avarice, Aspen’s
avalanches, acquisitions.
It may be for caresses, kisses,
tender touches, ceaseless
times of silence, holding,
murmurs. I think life is for
love and loving. Love is
more than time. It is the
Cosmos.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and human-rights advocate his entire adult life. He recently finished his novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.
