Half-Life

Kenneth Vincent Walker

Descending to where

No one knows.

For darkness begins

With a subtlety.

Mad illuminations

Throwing stones

Form this half-life

Which quizzically

Confounds me.

Rescinding all that

I’ve ever known.

Well, it has never

Been my specialty.

Recapturing each

Moment I’ve blown.

For the best laid plans

Are the ones that are

The most frightening.

Kenneth Vincent Walker is a "New Formalist" poet, spoken word artist, performer and author of Borderline Absurd (An Exercise in Rhyme and Reason), published by Poem Sugar Press/ Community Arts Ink 2015.