#follies
What a nickel to spend
At the recycling centre
But I rather keep this coin
I name it Nikki
As I found these
Are getting rarer and rare
By the day
As I find that
It makes me more
Insecure about society
Dec 7, 2024
Dec 7, 2024 at 6:55 PM UTC
Okay, okay, geeze
They're only follies
I'm sorry, have mercy,
I can surrender no further,
I plea on my knees
Doesn't matter how hard you squeeze
There's nothing left,
I have nothing left
I'm begging you please
When you leave,
Just deposit me by the other empties
©2023
May 1, 2024
May 1, 2024 at 1:23 PM UTC
In every case, there is a sorrow
Attached to advancing age,
And the decline attendant upon it,
Decline physical, mental, emotional,
In every case, there is a sorrow.
But somehow, there is a special sorrow,
In the pathetic tears
Of an ageing man,
Looking back at the thousand plus follies
Of a stupidly misspent youth,
But somehow there is a special sorrow,
Attached to those who look back
With eyes filled with the tears
Of fathomless and torturous regret,
And of promise unfulfilled.
Jul 24, 2016
Jul 24, 2016 at 4:40 AM UTC