"Too
Much to Love"
Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri
May 1st, 2006 5:06 am pdt
I forgive the transgressors
and the pillars of society
embracing hubris as if
it were the blood of life
I embrace the fools and
the fallacies
of financial ruin, give me time
and it will all be paid off eventually
Time is an invention of
immediate need
and longtime purpose
growing in understanding
and yet losing precious minutes
Nature's lands and growth
flora and fauna
put aside the road of man's intentions
barrelling fast and knowledgeless
into the abyss
building homes and business
without heed to the
eventual price
"They paved paradise
and put up a parking lot"
All is not lost
It won't be
and it can't be
the ink on the keyboard
fades with the words
typed over
and over
again
All the same questions
come neatly packaged
in painful prerogatives.
All the same wonders
come wandering back
to the fold
My heart and my soul
reach out as in the past,
and the future,
in the mind, and in the
fickle sense of purpose
Sometimes I
think I
love too much
and sometimes I think
I don't know how to love
Will you teach me?
Poetry
2006
