The Problem

This is the problem:

We do not want this to end.

Yet, we know that it will, indeed, end.

We know that there will be the scraping

Of the chairs in the room for the dying,

That we will want with unusual ferocity

To return once more to the field of red poppies

In Provence,

That there will the lies told with love

About what will happen next.

We know that there will be mentions in the paper,

About how we were good at living life.

We know that there will be a mass

And perhaps speeches

In which speakers will seek comfort.

So, rephrasing the statement of the problem:

We do not want this to end,

Yet, we know that it will, indeed, end.

--July 13, 2013