April 01, 2014

for Zoe, on the occasion of her 15th birthday


Only life can tell
what life will be.
If
in twenty years' time
we can still
take coffee in the park,
talk philosophy
and hobbits,
I will be a happy man.

1 comment:

humus said...

Oh but you have to be a happy man, regardless of coffee and hobbits. 'Love what IS' not what will be... it is a phantasm :) Btw, in the 8th grade (69 now ;), I wrote that poetry is the music of language... but now I believe that language is the whip of the monkey mind.... so...lovely though it is.... ?