The man on the corner
So many things await us
just around the corner :
the summer, the winter,
spring, happiness,
a disappointment, even death
or love or a dagger
to the heart
Everything awaits us
around one corner or another
in the great labyrinth
of corners that is
this life that deals
daily with chance
In a story by Borges
the man on the corner
with a raised hand.
So many daggers in so many
contrived forms
They await us
in the lethal labyrinth
in which aimlessly
we wander
with frayed threads
John Lyons