Think Me Not A Fool

Think me not a fool

(diary of a widow)

15, January 1896

written by: David L Painter

It has been seven years since you departed
Seven years have come
Seven years have gone
that time is lost never to be found
still I stand looking, hoping for another hand to hold.

Oh think me not a fool or an easy mark
perhaps a onetime roll in the hay
for I am better than the sum of those parts.

Think me not a fool or as a book that
once read can be laid aside and in the knowing
related to their friends and then what of me?

Am I then just one step closer to nowhere,
or shall I smile and Vanish without a trace?
Nor will I be as a broken pen trying to fill a blank page
but one of full measure.

Think me not a fool,
for I will not be as a candle
that the master has snuffed out before retiring,
thus leaving the passage way dark and open
awaiting the renewing light of day.

Shall I stand looking out past the leaded glass
to the barren snow covered fields?
Or perhaps I should compare myself to
a berry laden tree bent over with the heaviness
of its winter’s fruit,
of which no bird or animal or man will partake
for to eat of it is poison
and thus to die.

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David L Painter

David Painter is a Northeast Ohio poet and photographer. His aim is to capture his point of view on the world through nature, culture, architecture and history. Dave’s love for photography began in the 1970s with the purchase of his first Minolta SLR camera. Through his keen eye, Dave became a member of the Cleveland Photographic Society and the Chagrin Valley Photography Guild. For the last decade, Dave has added poetry to his creative repertoire. Expanding his interests to the human condition, fiction and history; his favorite era being the Civil War. Much of Dave’s poetry is inspired by his photography; the perfect marriage of his two passions. Dave is a member of many poetry groups including Allegory Alley, Scribbles Writing Organization, Poems and Unpoems, Writers Writing Poems and Out of Your Write Mind. Additionally, he is active in The Pixel Photography Club and the local historical society. Dave was born and raised in Charleston, W.V. but has made the Greater Cleveland area his home for the past fifty years. He is married with two kids.

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