January 1-3, 2020

we think those before us do not live

do not feel life’s flame as we feel it

or delight its pleasures as we delight

we think them dry and old and

dust

unlike we, so fresh and young and

lush

we think them thus and yet are wrong

do not know as those before us know

or knew, learn as they that life can but

make one wise as it is lived