Rebirth
I lived to have been there
seeing through a new heart
to shout across the velvet gloom
the brightness of my empty tomb
in the absence of my light
while shivers of anticipation
run roughshod through my life
for death, a corpse at my feet
rejects my plea
happily beguiled
COPYRIGHT(c) 1994 JOSEPH J. HARDING III
July 24, 1994