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previously published in 30 Poems,
2004,
Rough Winds Productions,
ISBN 0-953658-6-8
If You Never Grow Up
If you never grow
up, does it matter?
If
the years stack up
In
a tower of shells
That
might fall
Scattering
over the sand like lost buttons
Under
which you crawl
Revealing
how dark you are
How
raw inside
Moving
with such tiny steps across the moving tide.
If
you never grow up, does it matter?
If
the years ring out
Like
old church bells
That
still toll
Clanging
above the square in iron hums
To
where you stand
Unsure,
glove in hand
And
you are
Trapped,
all your different selves like minnows in a jar.
If
you never grow up, does it matter?
If
the years rack up
Like
unknown hats
In
a tailor shop
Calling
out to strangers as they pass
And
you look up
With
your bedroom eyes
To
discover that
You
don’t have to grow up to have a past.
Jehane Markham
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