Saturday, April 18, 2026

POEM - Borrowed Words

I see myself through 
a child's eyes my toys
cast across the bedroom floor
with the accompanying magical
folklore from my errant dreaming

my rolling chassis is still
as unsure as a newborn babes
for what appears purposeful 
and godlike has assumed this gate 
from the rubble I stumble upon

The words that I say 
are half beliefs half
bluster a type of blagging
obtained cheaply imbibed
from the erudition of libraries

This mind stuffed with pocketed
borrowings what I will leave behind 
is a trail of cellophane wrappers 
from around my humbugs
the legacy of having once eaten 

Far more than was needed to survive by


Written by Stephen Lumb
March-April 2026


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