Why I Remember

 

I Remember

  a vMULTI- POET CONSENSUS

The pavement stones resound, as I totter o'er the ground

    With my cane.

If I should live to be the last leaf upon the tree,

    Let them smile, as I do now.

Into this Universe, and Why not knowing,

   And out of it, I know not Whither.

The best laid schemes 

    Lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I  —

    I took the one less traveled by,

For each age is a dream that is dying,

  Or one that is coming to birth

I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, put out my hand, 

        And touched the face of God.

I kiss the lips of Silence;  in the end.

   I come again unto the breast of Night.

I …  Remember ...

… And turn down an empty glass.