Tiny Moments of Useless Beauty
(for Anise)
You ask
what if loving
and being loved
is not enough
what if the ugliness
of each day
outweighs
all else
and what is to be done
with the understanding
that not much will happen
from now
until the day we die
you ask
why not
go now
rather than wait
and I don’t have much to offer
in the way of hope
or belief
I don’t know how
we make it through these days
or why
and in life’s defense
I can only offer up
tiny moments
of useless beauty
the sun
the rain
pretty girls in the subway
a decent poem
a good sandwich
a joke well told
honest laughter
music
and wine
our fingers touching
the act of creation
the cat asleep on the bed
none of this is
much perhaps
and I don’t know what to do
with the heavy sadness
and the hungry void
I only know that
sometimes it is nice
to be here
and I imagine
I will miss us
terribly
when we are gone.
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