Poetry

I’ll Never Know (a pantoum)

I’ll Never Know (a pantoum)

Poster Boy

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ohboyitsandy

Little light through the trees

Little time - little thieves

Would you slow it down, please?

Won’t you try and test me?


Little time — little ease

I’m never looking back

Go ahead, try and test me

like a brown faded black


I’m never looking back

Instead I’ll follow fallen leaves

The brown faded back

A shadow bound from beams


I followed every leaf

Had to call out for a handout

The shadow found the beams

They told me I should branch out


Never wanted just a handout

And I guess she’s on a roll

I stepped out and branched out

But I was too slow and now I’ll never go


She said she’s on a roll

And she needs more room to grow

And I was too slow and now I’ll never go

Too damn slow and now I’ll never know

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