The Glint In Its Eyes

Expose the vitality of the mind,

unearthing its power, its passions,

whose imaginative energies

will ardent expression,

chock-full of creative resolve.

Find again

the design of

its words,

the elasticity of

its language.

Capture its immediacy

before its charm is spent

like particles of time

that no longer drift

in a florid flood of light

AS IF

Tomorrow nothing remained

of its fortitude – no blush, 

no bloom. no blithesomeness,

only its frail impression

postured in a pallid guise.