“The Optimist”
I cannot spend my days counting losses
focusing on withered branches and leaves
opening my heart to your dark decay
I refuse to bear your broken crosses
over my threshold—into my beliefs
by allowing your destruction to stay
like a hurricane that swirls and tosses
my gentle soul upon wild waves that heave
and boil, pulling me under and away
to the mirage of dead albatrosses
where your empty eyes gaze restless and grieve
for the simple joy of a sun drenched day
Copyright 2011 Elizabeth Abrams Chapman
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