bate

once all has gone wrong

at least all that is left

is to go on

*

i have a forget me knot

around my neck

though breath brings me back

to the remembrance of now

*

the best thing

to do for the future

is to leave the present

with nothing better

*

all is a metaphor

for all else

*

i have begun to measure

my own worth in ways

that do not need your ways

of measured approval

for what i have begun

*

i am a collection of smiles

not of art

though this fact makes me

do more of both