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Leslie Bush

Drama Fantasy Thriller

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Leslie Bush

Drama Fantasy Thriller

A PASSING PHASE

A PASSING PHASE

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A Passing Phase?

It's Just a passing phase.

These things happen. Young Love 

(deserving a capital L?), 

 

Romeo and Juliet, and so much more.

Me and Julio (down by the schoolyard)

The women come and go,

Their numbers are still low

 

I want to devote my life to humanity 

a noble intent, not practical 

A life devoted to the pursuit of beauty 

in whichever or whatever form.

 

Death, marriage, honesty, truth

All the same, a passing phase

In the end, one must accept

the women come and go, 

 

Speaking of their number, still low

Do you consider me a fool, or foolish?

To think such thoughts

While children die and mothers

 

Forced into servitude?

It is all for naught, the battles fought,

The fame we sought, lay crumbling, 

Discarded in the ruins we have bought

 

Remember! Note! Do as one ought

And the women, they come and go,

Confident that their number will grow. 

A passing phase? That's what it is,

 

Surely; as the world is flat; 

You can be sure of that.

Damn sure of that.

The women, come and go. 

 

Oh, how their number grows.

How does that leave you?

Feeling dejected, flat? Should do.

Was just a passing phase. Once more,

 

Once more into the bewildering maze.

Wasn't it good, while it lasted?

While you could still taste it,

Better sweet on the tongue,

 

With the feeling one could be forever young

The women? They came. They went.

They left me a message. "Want to repent?"

I didn't understand it either.

 



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