L. B. Mek

In each neglected minute

 

A snide smile warps empathy’s humaneness 

A blank cheque soils innocence to subservience 

A sharp blade offers escape to a despairing pulse

 

And

 

A mother with child 

guides a partner’s calloused palm

to experience aliveness 

in vitality’s kicking magnificence

 

And

 

A blank page of fate begins anew, with

Hope enough to scribble yet another’s 

Life of ephemeral gaiety, Promising 

Ingredients aplenty, to ink yet more

Tear stained, Poetry 

 

 

© L. B. Mek

September 2022