Burning Out Poem by Kurt Philip Behm

Burning Out



Some of us were meant to age
of those I am not one
To grace a rocker on the porch
death by zero-sum

When youth is gone my will retreats
the candle at its wick
As dreams abate, the moment late
—flowers all but picked

(Dreamsleep August,2022)

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