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Expectant and other poems

Laurence Overmire

A Hot January

First publication: June 2003

http://badosa.com/p120

EXPECTANT

We should have seen it coming

The future is not hard to predict

Death is and must be

We try so hard to pretend

Life is less than it is

Lest wanting more

We find ourselves

Profoundly

Disappointed.

FORGIVENESS

requires putting aside the ego to

acknowledge

the inter-connection of

one human being

to another.

HOW OLD?

Ask me my age and I’ll tell you

True

I’m somewhere between

Birth and Death

Are you?

GOOD AND BAD

The strong negative is necessary

In order to see the redeeming positive

Clearly.

LAST CARD

With every closing of a door

There is another door that opens

In new space of mind

Only courage required

To take the step

The crossing of the threshold

On the verge of a salient dream.