eric sundin

***%) May I not crumble bereft!

Trend chasing & smart phone prattle
sound to me like empty rattle

It keeps fading my persistence
feeling drained & depleted
Asking haven’t I gone the distance
or am I just conceited?

May I just be left alone?
Chances of change long blown
feeble, soggy my backbone
Hope, once stout, long since flown

In what small time may still be left
please let me not crumble bereft!

edited 08/17/24 0830