Void 1

Of Course All Life

Is a Process

Of Breaking

Down,

But the Blows

That Do the Dramatic Side

Of the Work-

The Big Sudden Blows

That Come,

Or Seem to Come,

From Outside-

The Ones You Remember

And Blame Things On

And, in Moments of Weakness,

Tell Your Friends About,

Don't Show Their Effect

All at Once.

There Is Another

Sort of Blow

That Comes from Within-

That You Don't Feel

Until It's Too Late

To Do Anything About It,

Until You Realize

With Finality

That in Some Regard

You Will Never

Be As Good

A Man Again.

The First Sort of Breakage

Seems to Happen Quick-

The Second Kind

Happens Almost Without Your Knowing

But Is Realized

Suddenly Indeed.