Fred Aiken Writing

Tag: Poetry

CERTAINTY ON THE HORIZON

i’m certainly uncertain
a certain amount of the time,
especially when seriously considering
the seriousness of the situation,
which i’m certain is often,
or so i’m told

TO THINK

i think you will find
that i think i’m more important than i think
i am, but less important than you think
you are, 
or,
as some might describe it,
not important at all

BACK TO THE PROLOGUE

if i could go to the beginning,
then i would read the prologue for the first time,
maybe understand what it is that
the author was trying to convey,
or maybe find out a little bit about myself,
though the prologue probably doesn’t
hold those answers