Dwindle slowly, you dwindle on grassy shores <br />Lest of your fading, lest of your leaving <br />I count a many troubles of your numbering <br />Where many stumble on drifting and dying <br /> <br />For a time of a cock-crow on tenterhooks <br />You repose some dancing in a better nook <br />Men, you pregnant pouches and oh so real <br />Men, you birth your own more than a single deal <br /> <br />I cannot celebrate so soon, so easily <br />When human nature ensnares your monogamy <br />And everyone move you oust from ghastly hands <br />You petrify smaller homes for your vanishing band <br /> <br />I cannot see more reasons of unreal believing <br />If it allows me to see you breathless, lifeless <br />Then I am nothing as an epitaph worth forgetting <br />Swimming quite a few miles, you swim at escaping <br /> <br /> <br />(written April 26,2008 Marikina City, Philippines)<br /><br />Chester Maynes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/seahorses/
