I am lost now
& this is the seventeenth time
that I have written this poem
So what is the cost
to rack and reason how
As we wake ourselves to sleep
what is between the nowAnd the abstinence
from the words I cannot keep
& this is the eighteenth time
that I have written this poem
a poem from the collection Some Trickier Poems - Love with Conflicts - available as a kindle download or library item by clicking here