taking the lead from Jia Dao’s Inn at Niyang

in sorrow
they fade
those old friends
of mine
into the mist
of receding time
and I here stranded
in the present
straining to see
their faces
aching to hear
their voices
before I too
fade away
lost to those
I leave behind

5 thoughts on “taking the lead from Jia Dao’s Inn at Niyang

  1. I like this Leonard – and also the one that fills it. They are clearly a pit, delicately drawn and faintly, perhaps stoically, melancholic. This one I suspect is your own – and very nicely done.

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