Disappointments

The Songs of The Common Men

O you who bloomed throughout the seasons, Who conjures hope in winter's treason; The water to the tiller's drylands, You are the song of the common man.

One breath and the pasture sways in green, One truth and the leaves become yellow, Yet you take flight in the dawning gleam, And breathe anew in boundless mellow.

You are in the rain that cascades earth, And the voice that brings us back to dirt; You fly along with eternity's girth, Whose death's eternal— and so is rebirth.

Luke Isaiah Ismael

Disappointments

Hoppity-bippity-bop The bunny has the clock, Watching the world with mock;

Hippity-boppity-boop Time is in a loop, The bunny let out a scoff;

When things feel like they changed, Here, things become estranged. The bunny now bit back a laugh.

Coleen Casanova