Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Origami


I have folded too many times
into pleasing, useful shapes

All you had to do was all you ever did;
I assumed the positions

Tangled fibers fail;
wearied with the work 
of false bravado

I become a useless scrap, 
creased and flimsy;   
to disintegrate before you
the only thing left to do