Picture this, My Dear Girl
There’s a poet standing in a bookstore.
He tenderly takes a few copies
Of a poem he wrote once
And goes over them
But they do not ring true.
Suddenly, they sound hollow.
He must make a decision
To live or to die
But you, Dear Girl
Are near him.
You can help him
With his decision.
You can make him live
A full and happy
And meaningful life
Giving and loving
To so many others
Including the children you will have.
He stares at you now.
What is your decision?
Bruce Curley lives in Mt. Airy, MD with his wife and two sons. Recent publications include: Screaming Like a Banshee; Feile-Festa Literary Arts Journal; With No Apologies, My Double Life, Musings on Sarah Bernhardt, He is published in several journals: Home Planet News, Rain Dog Review, Voices Israel, and many others. Recent anthologized poems include: This Broken Silence in Beyond Lament: Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust, On What the Future of Civilization Depends in Under a Gull’s Wing.
