Within these pages is inspiration embodied

Words in lieu of numbers enumerate these days

Count them and the equation scripts the thoughts of this man

His life, his ways;

Beautifully endangered, saved through the spoken word

In danger of existing, but not of being forgotten

Besotted, belie English text beside rites of passage in dialect

Respect, revere these pages

My name is Eugene

These are my sorrows, my rages

Delight yourself,

For I enlighten myself with the happenstance of sages

And here I write, so that my life’s text

Is never lost to the ages.

                        -Eugene Aarons-Cooke

        05/03/08

© 2008 Eugene Aarons-Cooke