Poems of Albert Ahearn

341. The First Deadly Sin 8/30/2009
342. The Gulf Of Mexico 5/29/2010
343. The Heart 2/5/2011
344. The Jewel 8/27/2009
345. The Letter 4/28/2010
346. The Pill Box 4/14/2010
347. The Portrait 8/27/2009
348. The Price Of War 5/29/2012
349. The Reign Must Fall 2/27/2011
350. The ring 4/1/2010
351. The Sage 8/10/2009
352. The Second Coming 9/10/2009
353. The Servitude Of Words 9/4/2012
354. The Shadow Is You 8/10/2009
355. The Son Also Rises 9/7/2010
356. The Spell Of Spring 4/4/2012
357. The thief 9/11/2009
358. The Visitor 5/15/2010
359. The Weary Poet 9/2/2012
360. The Wind 2/19/2011

Limbo

Muffled mourning falls on deaf ears
that echo elegiac waves
from a transgressible past life.
Phantoms in an abstract limbo
where the living never enters.
***
Doctor, what is your prognosis?
I'm sad to say his futures grim
I doubt that he will last a day.

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