THE PRESENT AND THE PAST
If I can take the merest weight
off
shoulders that bear so much;
If I can touch you and, with
that touch
bring out the light that I see
so clearly;
If, as a bard the tales I spin
create
an image no one else has seen,
and bring a startled look to
faces
and change minds made up
till now,
perhaps you will see yourself
through those eyes
and mine, and know
that the present can belie the
past.
4/2/2000