We're trying to come to terms with this thing called
'Life'
That's what artists do
Trying to dig beauty out of the
Pain
To create something lasting
Something that speaks beyond
Generations
Something extraordinary
To mock the crude incivility of the grave.
(First electronically published in This Hard Wind, by EWGPresents, Vol.4, No.5, May 2000)
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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