"Upending
Expectation Irrational"
Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri
03/10/09 06:26 a.m. pdt
Experience
elation in error
Even darkness comes to rest at the foot of immediacy
Catalog life and settle back
Slide the meter closed and open up to others
What was
that sound I can't recognize?
Where is that memory I misplaced?
Is recognition what I finally realize?
Did I run too fast and yet still lose the race?
Experience
disaster without borders
Even light breaks over the final doorstep of doom
Turn the pages of proficiency
End the book on a light note and retire
Words don't
flow as from the waterpipe of wellness
anymore
Thoughts stay racked in the brain, unsettled and unwary
Positive outcomes battle with weary dillemmas
And nobody seems to win or lose
I've lost
youth and innocence
I've gained experience and shame
I've written much but to what end?
The typewriter of my soul has a broken carriage
and the computers of youth's yearnings
slowly drain their hard drives of memory
Experience
elation with fervor
Darkness and light, positve battling weary
Close the door and turn out the light
Rise with the sun and smile
Everything
is going to be all right
Eventually
Even now
As the dampened sounds of uncertainty chime forever
Poetry
2009
