Sunday, January 23, 2011

The Blinking Cursor






a million bytes would not be enough
to fill this canvass now hazy with age;
I’ve picked up morsels from torn pages
of poets and walked the path of giants

my still fingers hesitate still, nay, fear
to strike the words that my heart longs
 to leave before I gasp for  breath [as
the cursor blinks in derisive laughter]

each time I try, the tears won’t come;
the deepest of my pain fall farther
from the depths of my own longings
[perhaps this suffering isn’t enough]

tonight, I cease to dream of stars
that have long eluded my fingers
I shall be content to hide [and live
In darkness  to watch the cursor fade]

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