Saturday, November 14, 2015

Not This by Olena Kalytiak Davis


my god all the days we have lived thru 
saying 

not this 
one, not this, 
not now, 
not yet, this week 
doesn't count, was lost, this month 
was shit, what a year, it sucked, 
it flew, that decade was for 
what? i raised my kids, they 
grew i lost two pasts—i am 
not made of them and they 
are through. 

we forget what 
we remember: 

each of the five 
the fevered few 

days we used 
to fall in love.