Explorations: Lxiii

How long, how long I keep asking the elements Plead with the wind Request the fire Look longingly at water Stare into ether Lovingly look at the earth How long how long Will you take to break Your balance within To go up in billowing smoke To merge the remains In flowing waters... How long how long I keep asking the elements To once again carry me Back to from where they Diligently assembled me The (un) known meadows Or deserts of snow or sand... In a wink it occurred to me I've nothing to live for The wink occupied The being, the environs It's placed in The world looks at me In a sensuous dejection Smiled at me in weak indulgence... What do you do In moments as this, You may ask I retrieve into a smaller Corner within the corner I' confined to... I write what you call Poetry!