Sometime

Weary timelessness of nothingness may ever

Meteor across the skies, my barren eyes to blur

In blue flames of sorrow beneath a widow’d star

To burn the ragged wings of future dreams.

Shall I spread my silver’d hope beneath your feet

And sprinkle sparkles truthfully to reach your eyes?

What have I lost, if giving all my heart, I sing

And know there will be someone that gave and lost.

But I will not dwell in towers of that dreaded doom

And count the tearful days on nameless graves.

I curse the tongue that lied and lied and lied

And sentenced to death the innocent that died.

But how upon our thrones of bricks and mud

With silenced voices like stones beneath the streams

So helpless,while evil powers change our course.

What have we lost but love that is forever?

The end of time I’ll spend in this forgotten valley

Scrawling words upon my furrowed face.

Wondering in the long forgotten shadows

Of stumbling souls of this, past noble race. 

    Richard Lynn Livesay 2009