Youth Can See It Poem by jerome moore

walking on a nautilus sidewalk
youth can see it
twelve steps to the sun
as it sets behind me further and further
a new cosmos raised beside me and beyond me
the tigers who hide
in the bush
and the toads who sing nocturnes
the whole world is revolving and I break away clean
clean and painless
I have began murdering myself
soon nothing of my youth will remain
and a new man will walk from
the shell
smiling through the cracks
a new cosmos