Of death and taxes




Seven pounds

of flesh for seven lives taken.



Seven pounds
of love and hurt
of tears and laughter.



Seven pounds
of past and future.
Of hope and regret.




Of long searching gaze and offered hand.
Of shatterproof stones and broken wings.
Of banana peels and weeds,
of Beast and Duke.




Of giving and receiving.
Of seeing and being watched.
Of ocean and sea of grass.
Of lost and found,
of heartbreak and tongue-twists.




Of holding, holding on, and handing over,
Of the "what-if's" and the numbers.


Ultimately, of choices and decisions.