My Reason by Connor Kaplan

My Reason by Connor Kaplan

My life is young

         I  feel like there is so much left and

         I will not wait awhile   

         because I’ll go away.

         Why wait at all?

         So much interesting things to discover,

         here and there,   

         I will search near and far.

It is because I can’t make up my mind   

that I find myself walking in circles.

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Poem of the Day: The Reason

Posted: Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 -0600

My life is vile

         I hate it so

         I’ll wait awhile   

         And then I’ll go.

         Why wait at all?

         Hope springs alive,

         Good may befall   

         I yet may thrive.

It is because I can’t make up my mind   

If God is good, impotent or unkind.

Stevie Smith, “The Reason” from New Selected Poems. Copyright © 1972 by Stevie Smith. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.