CHILDREN

They eat
A breakfast
Of innocence
An evasion
Of calamity
The world
Is dying
Around them
Under the sun rays
They speak
To each other
They utter things
Like children do

EXCERPT POEM 7

As we sat

Next to the table
I saw

In your eyes
The story

Of our lives
It read:
Death with

A new beginning
And our future
Coated with tenderness

A HAPPY NEW YEAR

We entered
The New Year
Watching a movie
My two kids
Laying next to me
I pointed out
The folly
Of cinema
They laughed
At the screen
I smiled with them
They fell asleep
Long before I did
It was the best ever