The jar is mostly empty -
Firm packed words and phrases
Taken handfuls at a time
And flung at parchment and the world
They did not boomerang to fill the void
Replenishing what was taken.
The clotheslines of the hoi-polloi
Are burdened with the excess,
Straining in the winds of nonchalance
Exhibiting the lack of contemplation.
Do the thoughts that ride those words
Accept that they will blow away like dust.
ljm
May 8, 2021
May 8, 2021 at 1:37 PM UTC
The jar is mostly empty -
Firm packed words and phrases
Taken handfuls at a time
And flung at parchment and the world
They did not boomerang to fill the void
Replenishing what was taken.
The clotheslines of the hoi-polloi
Are burdened with the excess,
Straining in the winds of nonchalance
Exhibiting the lack of contemplation.
Do the thoughts that ride those words
Accept that they will blow away like dust.
ljm
Still struggling to recover the vocabuary the stroke took away.