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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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