A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

the end of you

I don't want to be
the end of you
the wreck of you
the rocks upon which
you are crashed, and sundered,
spoiled, and bled. I did not cast my nets
to tangle your fins and gills, you
sea-monster, you
creature of depths
and reach,

I'd as soon have said - Lord! I wish
that I'd stayed on the beach,
or had not looked down - that I'd missed my chance
to glimpse what I can't comprehend, what I now
love best

- that you'd only passed under,
undreamt, unguessed,

So that I could just once more catch
my breath

I cannot
see the end of you even yet

and I never want to. I cannot
forget,

I never wanted to
be the end of you

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