It has been a while since I’ve posted any poetry, which is sad because that was one of the reasons I started this page. However, I was under that mistaken belief that there was a paying market for poetry out there and that if you posted your work online, they wouldn’t take it. That part is actually true, but there is a minuscule market out there for poetry. So I decided that it wasn’t worth my time. I still love poetry and write it when I can, but I will be posting it here for the time being. Enjoy.
I wrote this poem for my grandson for his birth in 2014. I’ve only seen him a handful of times since. Life…
On Day One
Our first meeting
You fresh to the world
Still wet around the ears and scared
I smiled the worlds’ welcome
On Day One
You were all things
All potentials and possibilities
The seed of everything, anything
On Day One
Perched on the cusp of infinity
You were a multiverse at a point
An infinity, a singularity
You could be anything, go anywhere
With all of life before you
Please spread your wings and savor it all
For you will never be more free
Than on Day One
From here on the world closes in
It presses around you
Forms you
Controls you
Stereotypes you
No path is completely untraveled
No life without influence
After Day One
Forces will pull you
Warp you
Change you
So hold on to what you can of yourself
For only on Day One
Were you completely free and completely you
So Many Words... 