survival questions <br />candour in what once you <br />held as dear – dumbed <br />mementos jousting displaced <br />souvenirs of time and space <br />silent smiling faces snapped <br />too long ago now nuance <br />in a different way <br /> <br />pictured here you see an <br />enigmatic man you knew <br />belittled by a subtlety of <br />wisdom’s barefaced grin <br />the gaze of his eyes drawn <br />backward to a day etched <br />thin by changes anxious as <br />his rumpled clothes <br /> <br />a new-age nexus price is <br />paid in stunted growth and no <br />respite for agonies sustained <br />his days are now betrothed <br />to tending trophies stuffed <br />with frugal dreams aloofly <br />kept alive as hopes entombed <br />in timeless infancy <br />© 25 September 2009, I. D. Carswell<br /><br />Ivan Donn Carswell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/candour/
