LONG OVERDUE

clearing the easy chair table
of literary items left behind
brings to mind a tragic fable
surreal times in things I find

you survived in other pages
distance, hardened society
slipping away into the ages
beyond fate, any propriety

these days are long, wasted
still, I linger to think on you
remembering that life tasted
like books left, all past...due

(c) 2004 Rennie Lorca