My role in society, or any artist or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

                                                                            – John Lennon

Every moment is special

if you see it as a gift
a moment of simply being
no place for trouble or rift

 

you wake up in the morning
knowing we all have our time
life is all too terribly short 
to waste it is the ultimate crime

I lost you that morning

it was 1 am or 2

your mother and father

we were right there

 

I held your face

gently in my hands

crying for you not to go

please don't leave me

Sitting in the waiting room

your hands folded

I touch your arm

look around at people

glance at words

on a screen

or magazine

but too distracted

with fears

of the unknown

to really read at all