Ten Years Without The Dawn
by Dennis J Bernstein


I wake to the least speech of leaves.
My father loved the phrase:
“tomorrow is another day,”
I think because he knew,
for once, he was right,
and was delighted
in looking forward
to another spin
with the dawn.
They day before he died
he said tomorrow
for the last time,
and we all knew
he meant it.






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