Mortal Coil

ponder my time on this coil...  lost and old...
don't care... just stop and fold...

squandered, lost with failing prayers and blind angels...
all the hope and time, from boy to man...

seeking all cowardly angles
and off to a lonely isle... man to old...

isolation welcomed...

ELPH© December 31, 2016

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