I Remember

 I Remember

They make no sense; my memories

They flicker like a candle flame.

Mere phantom childhood fantasies?

Or should they bear another name?

Confusing and yet comforting,

They make me who I am.

Collecting time; a foolish thing

My past an earthen dam?

Pecking like a blinded chick

The wall of dirt begins to slide

A time bomb's warning tick

now pounding deep inside.

 I can not stop it's just too late

ancient wheels begin to turn

the creaking of a rusty gate;

the lid twisting from an urn.

Misty threshold calling

I leap through the open maw

yesterday appalling,

Or delight at what I saw.

Laying face up toward the sky

A baby wrapped in red

Now I wish my past a lie

My birthday's for the dead.

Nameless faces come to claim me

From the slimy ruddy muck,

Death child is what they name me

but aloud they just say luck.