Trying To Get By

Eternally knowing
and not to forget
Infectious and growing
but not to regret

Shamelessly blaming
the ones who don't know
smokeless flaming
and failing to glow

impossibly trying
to make it all great
unstoppably crying
to make it all wait

incurably yearning
trying to get high
reluctantly learning
trying to get by

painfully healing
the wounds of youth
constantly feeling
the wounds of truth

intensely ignoring
the things that you hear
immensely exploring
the things that you fear


Melinda Lantz Marinko
copyright 1990