Friday, December 12, 2014

A Poem Charles Dickens Could Have Written If Only He Had Preferred Free Verse


If I can bear
but a touch of Your hand
here, upon my heart,
I shall be upheld
in all of this.

December 12 2014

Update for Bruce:

If I can bear
but a touch of Your hand
upon my heart,
I shall be upheld
in all of this.

December 19 2014

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Nice sentiment.

Maybe: here,

gets taken out?

Michael Kei Stewart said...

Hmm. Have to think about that. Good idea, but I'm torn btw that and staying true to the original.