this is the most peaceful

easy night in which

to go to sleep I've felt in ages


free of a life-long mythology

that did nothing but stay

and hamper each move


and how sweet to awaken at liberty

relieved from that morning-after

rue and guilt and fear that maybe I was wrong


no way that will prevail after so many years

wrestling with no demon but myself

and this is the poetry I make of it now


empty and calm as a biography fades

and the reader turns a new page







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