Thinking of You

July 25, 2008 at 11:11 am (Poetry & Literature)

 

The room is spinning

I must be drinking again

 

Sitting in a hotel room in NYC

alone,

except for this picture of you

and it’s not the same without you here

we used to walk down these streets

together,

so many years ago

 

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Time Running Out

July 25, 2008 at 12:30 am (Poetry & Literature)

Here I am at the end of my life
and I don’t know how much time I have left
maybe a week,
maybe a year
and I don’t know where I’m heading
to Heaven’s pearly gates
or maybe just the cold, dark ground

All I have to live for 
are the memories of yesterday
I’m just hanging on by a thread
and I hope I’ll be remembered when I’m gone
eighty years of photographs
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