Tuesday will be the 2nd anniversay of my niece's death. This poem is for her:
Spherical
For Celina
A
baby
is born
In 9 seconds,
Or 3 or 7, another
Male
female
Into spheres of life
Dotted with distasteful stars
And periodic comets to doom
Life on this bubble
A
baby
dies
In 9 seconds—or 4, or 2—another
Male
female
Replaces her
Usurper lent a ladder
Like Jacob’s
To fall and give way
To another baby
© Joseph E. Arechavala 11/5/07
1 comment:
Good poem. And the circle of life goes on. It's like when my dad died in June (a very hard thing for me to face) and my granddaughter was born in July.
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