dwelling in uncertainty <br />that vacillates between <br />despair and hopelessness <br />swamped in depths of <br />darkened introspection <br />edged with silver chalices <br />dispensing only misery <br /> – oh, is this figure me <br /> <br />cannot reach beyond good <br />yesterday where joy at no <br />expense conspires with glee <br />to free at least a winsome <br />smile – but wasted in this <br />hapless halophile <br />© 17 July 2009, I. D. Carswell<br /><br />Ivan Donn Carswell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-smile-at-no-expense/
