Unfinsihed
By C Perricone
"So many promising
youths, but never a
finished man."
R W Emerson,
"Transcendentalist"
Look no further
Than the eyes:
Circled in black,
The very night drawn
Into them,
Regret stamped
By Time's Crows,
Every tear carrion
For the omnivorous Past.
Look no further
Than the eyes:
Into the Infinite
Lens of Light
Where every promise
Is Invented,
And somewhere there
Look for that reflection of…
You in the eyes of another,
And see how your promises
Could never have been kept.
C. Perricone has had poems published in literary magazines in print and online, as well as, two volumes of poetry: 1. A Summer of Monkey Poems, Cummington Press, Omaha, 1996. 2. Footnotes, Boatwhistle Books, London, 2018. He earned a PhD in philosophy from The City Univ. of New York, Graduate Center, NY, NY and has had philosophy articles and reviews published in professional philosophy journals. He lives in New Jersey, USA.