Hope and Anxiety
A quiet wish is granted
With such a portrait of translucent bloom
From a golden colony of life force
Interrupting flashes of grievous doom
The grimaces paint an unfortunate paradox
Upon lineaments of flowering emission
Born of an era of benevolence
Before the days of electronic transmission
Anxious, I must ponder
If my perennial light shall be robbed of it's flame
A latent voyage of emptiness
Drawing scant consolation from the frame.
© Paul Ginz 2006
