A Beggar's Song

October 19, 2020

My last attempt

to circle the square

anger takes the throne

Isolated

no longer to share

servitude alone

Wandering unsure

things left unsaid

words to disappear

Into the dark

deserted forlorn

heightening my fear

The ladder broken

every rung

unable now to climb

Direction gone

a beggar’s song

—with nothing left to find

(Valley Forge Pennsylvania: October, 2020)

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