Someday. Not that it would
be hung, no one else could
illustrate my life.
With no care for it at all.
To pull the struggling
you give and give
what you have to
free someone from their
mud. Without repayment
only your attachments
are worth a fight.
There is an argument
you could write about
my life, as though anything
might change or matter. Like
terracotta, it starts from
dust and so it is done.
Your life much more
to say, without the
tarnish, will slip as
too many do, unappropriated.
Though with only
two sides and given
away, your gifts were,
to others, seeming to have
been too precious while
of no meaning, or these
coins were probably
much less to you. RLB 2 7 17