Introspection.
I see her then
when first we met.
I hear those words
which, when she sang
captured me.
Now, when sadder moments come
I turn my thoughts for solace
to those first, troubled, tender days.
I smile and give thanks to God
for what I have,
and could, so easily, have lost.
Tony Kreit ……….Jan 1984.
Introspection.
This together with ‘Always’ is another personal poem. It is, of course, about the same person. Some of the sentiments will be easily recognisable.
The message of the last few lines, however, was never intended for public consumption. It was to remain between the two of us as far as I am concerned but times change and new people come along……..What the hell!
Tony Kreit……10-01-02
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If…
If I remember summer
when the cold of winter comes.
If I remember spring
and those quiet, warm, days now gone.
When my youth and Joy walked hand in hand.
If Autumn’s softness is still fond memory
when life’s early fire is but cool recollection.
Then I truly thank you.
To all our anniversaries!
Tony Kreit…………July 1992
If………
Another personal poem. It doesn’t take a genius!
Tony Kreit….10-01-02
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Enough.
A young girl lies in bed.
She dreams a bitter dream.
A baby cries and young men laugh.
They fight and kill, and bomb.
The heart says “time”. “Enough”.
Of. God! How can we talk?
Say what is in our hearts?
Arab and Jew, three thousand years.
The streets still run with blood.
The brain says “time”. “Enough”.
Korea, Vietnam and Africa.
The Irish kill themselves
A bomb blast in a crowded shop.
A young boy’s leg and both his arms.
His mother weeps Time! Enough!
Think on, young man,
before you plant your bomb.
For your seeds sewn cowardly
will yield a bitter fruit in dreams to come.
Your spirit shouts oh God! Time! Enough!
You so dehumanise yourself
in your slinking coward’s way.
Step back and think a gentler thought.
Your victim’s face so peaceful now
two weeks he took to die.
Step back and say
“Enough!”
Tony Kreit. Winter 1982.
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Life’s journey.
Do we travel through noughts in life’s great journey?
In life’s dream do we travel from zero to zero?
When the holiday starts the days seem so long,
And as each day passes the remainder pass faster, ever faster.
So it is with life as we journey evermore towards the hereafter.
From whence do we come? To where do we go?
The questions remain the great ones to be answered.
Does one emerge to this life from a huge nought in the universe?
Does one travel towards zero at the speed of the train?
Does it have to be asked? Does it have to be answered?
I do not claim to remember if I existed before,
am I heading towards zero? I cannot yet know.
And so with no answer it seems we must be content.
Yet I will not stay quiet before whatever time is spent.
Tony Kreit October 2010.
I was watching television one evening when someone used the phrase “from Zero to Hero”. The phrase “from Zero to Zero” immediately popped into my mind thereby asking the question from whence and to where do we travel life’s journey. It was as simple as that. The answer, of course, is much more challenging.
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