Snippets of the Mind
By Nolo Segundo
That’s really all we have
when you come right down to it:
little pieces of life, random
moments we dare call memories.
But what are these fragments,
these snippets of the mind?
Just sort of, kind of, bright
flashes in the pan, lighting up
the brain, rolling into the mind,
willy-nilly, like freight cars
abandoned by the locomotive?
All life’s experiences, both sweet
and sour, remain only as touches,
wisps brushing ‘gainst the soul,
memories as promise, but always
as promise unfullfilled, unkept...
For the only reality we have lies
in the moment, every moment,
each breath we take, everything
before or after the moment is
mere illusion, a coloring of the
lost past or a fantasy that will
never be born….
Life is like a fine bespoke suit
until some madman comes by
to cut it up into myriad snippets
we so bravely call memories….
Nolo Segundo, pen name of retired teacher [America, Japan, Taiwan, Cambodia] L.J. Carber, 77, became a published poet in his 8th decade in over 230 literary journals in 19 countries and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, thrice for Best of the Net. Cyberwit.net has published 3 collections: The Enormity Of Existence, Of Ether and Earth and Soul Songs. These titles reflect awareness gained over 50 years ago when he had an NDE whilst nearly drowning: that he has a consciousness predating birth and surviving death, what poets for millennia have called the soul.