Hear me
read
the poem as
an MP3 file.
Watch me
read
the poem as
a YouTube video.
Video Music:
Clue Night.
By Damiano Baldoni.
Performed by
Damiano Baldoni
at the
Free Music Archive
under an Attribution
license.
Copyright by
Nicholas Gordon
Clear away the cobwebs
from your eyes --
Old ways of thinking, doing, wanting, dreaming!
Learn that present truths are future lies,
Undone by what is now well past redeeming.
Make of life a vast experiment
Blessed by passion, toil, terror, pain,
Unafraid to scuttle what you meant,
Sure only that no failure is in vain.
Do this, and you will have a chance to be
A sailor at the edge of what you see,
Yet yearning for what no one can
attain.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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