poem: rhyme and season

// shine

You’ve gotta burn to shine,
You’ve gotta stay firm to last,
You’ve gotta be in it to win it,
But am I fading out too fast?
Why am I always cold –
So cold,
Like snow falling on water.

// pocketwatch

I’m out of step
I’ve got no sense of timing
I’m always a day late
Or a day early
Someone wound me up too tight –
There’s a spring loose
Somewhere inside me.

// Life is an infinite thing

This is where
Life… comes together
This / is where life / comes together
This / is where the distance
Between time and space meld forever
Into a kaleidoscope of monolithic glee
This is where…