A Winter's Morning

What shall I do
     in this time?
Cry out "Alas" -
   That which was

Inevitable

has come to pass today

And why should I Feel this ache There is nothing to be gained No solution to be learned No ready end to be made.

There is only wind whistling Across ice-clad winter lakes Where grey doves take wing softly Rustling the still dawn air

And the hallowed hum of cars Whisk briskly past along black pathways Carved out of the Mother's Flesh Mind-steel-earth-flesh embracing.

And all is one in noon's chill As it always has to be seperated but by mind and will and life and "me"

- Anthony M. Gazzillo