GENERATIONS Copyright (C) 1997 by Not Nice Music
II. A COLLECTION OF OBSCURITY by Edwin M. Drogin

36. Untitled (When)

 When
   When tinged fog particles slowly
                          so slowly
              drift round
        spiral round
      slowly to the ground.
 Settle with a sigh.

       So,with footsteps plainly
                 marked in the dust.
      Trail across a beating heart
              musty.

   Love and death-settled on the ground.
Filmy
     dusty
          settled
                 tracked with
                             footsteps.
        Grayish brown
             fills the lungs
                   cough and teary
                                  eyed.
     So is love
               sad
                  slow.

          Real love-yet breath of wind
     a mad whirling dance creates.
            fog swirls and beats
          sifts and retreats.
              lunges, whirls.
       settles once again.
           Lonely footsteps
  beat through the thin film and bare
             the hard surface.

               I was here
                  am here
             will be here forever...
                    less eternity.