This for me has something of the eerie steadiness of Edwin Arlington Robinson.
thanks from Max
Quoting Richard Jeffrey Newman <[log in to unmask]>:
> The Silence at the End of a Marriage 3
>
> The mile he tried to walk was not a mile,
> and the shoes he wore turned out to be his own,
> and the years it took, the years this should have been
> as clear to him as the phony welcoming smile
> he knew he couldn't trust, all that while,
> until his son was gone and he was grown
> old and more tired and bitter than when
> he lost what he'd called his soul in that first trial,
>
> *those* years gathered like dust beneath the last
> flames of what had been the light his eyes
> gave him to see when he was called to choose-
> and he realized now he hadn't wanted to choose-
> but when he was called he felt compelled, and his eyes
> lit up the future, but fire doesn't last.
>
>
>
> Richard Jeffrey Newman
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> Nassau Community College
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