A life worth trying

"A life worth trying"

This day

I hold in fragile

Watch it twirl and sing

A bird of illusion

Trying 

On the absent wing 

This hour

It dares of me

Plays at my feet

An adorable chance

I play the music to its

Carnival mockery

This life

I walk 

In shaded reason

Bound 

A faith and strength perched 

In summer constellation

This heart

The heaviest of bottle

Broken

Slipped 

On bare thin, icy stage

This end

A sun in rising

Left to wilt

Where the stem has snapped away

Buried in coppice

A seed of child and chortle 

Remain