Colin F. Jones

ONCE SAID

If you take my hat, then please accept my coat,
For with naked brow I should my body bare,
For I’m no castle with restrictive moat,
And all I have the world can take or share.
Yet leave my shoes for they are truly mine,
Designed to fit a foot that soon must flee,
For though my heart can only blood confine,
Thoughts are lost when you take my hat from me.
For that which holds so sacred many words,
Exposed to light loses its desire,
When self uniqueness when common it occurs,
As sparks for flames of another’s fire.
Some simple words from a sadder lifetime come,
And said but once are thus then said and done.