The End of the Line
yesterday was the beginning
today could be the end
making
wishes
on
stars
and found pennies
and sometimes the color red
dreams collected in mason jars
next to glass marbles and buttons
and shiny toys that kids lost in the sand
how many days have since past?
how many suns have set?
since the very first day
that I remembered
my life
was
just
a moon
away
I tried to write it all down
on a brand new spiraled book
I dotted my I’s and crossed the T’s
and lined up the words in perfect rows
but again, once again, I forgot to remember
that punctuation was meant for the end of the line
and now sentences start with points of exclamation
but end with words trailing off into space
and all I'm left with is
wishes
on
stars
today could be the end
making
wishes
on
stars
and found pennies
and sometimes the color red
dreams collected in mason jars
next to glass marbles and buttons
and shiny toys that kids lost in the sand
how many days have since past?
how many suns have set?
since the very first day
that I remembered
my life
was
just
a moon
away
I tried to write it all down
on a brand new spiraled book
I dotted my I’s and crossed the T’s
and lined up the words in perfect rows
but again, once again, I forgot to remember
that punctuation was meant for the end of the line
and now sentences start with points of exclamation
but end with words trailing off into space
and all I'm left with is
wishes
on
stars
posted by Unknown at 5:00 PM
1 Comments:
okay, okay, okay... so I can't read this post without thinking of a quote from "A River Runs Through It"
...Brad Pitt's character is regaling his family with a story about an "interview" he had recently for the paper (he was a writer...)
(or as I've been most recently told, a "journalist")
the subject of his interview was none other than President Calvin Coolidge, who was fishing at the time, and Pitt says, "what are you fishin' with?" to which President Coolidge replied, "the end of the line!"
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