The Being And Not Being Poem by Maria Shipka

So little is sometimes enough,
a sudden eye wink,
an incautious step,
when you wrong saw,
or forget to see
and presently broken is the thread
so thin like the hair,
which divide the life of not being...

For ever in your mind
dissect you yourself,
Oh! Why...why...and how
could you allow it? ? ?
Without end you´ll blame yourself
because of this short incautious moment
which could to break
someone´s thread of life.

Oh! Stop grieve!
Stop ruin yourself!
Let forgive to yourself,
so as you used forgive to others.
But never forget!
Forever you remember!
On it what caused
this short sudden eye wink,
which divided could
the being of being not...


(c) shipka