Spinning

The dreidel spins
Faster and faster 
Letting loose 
Letting the world subside
As it turns into streams of yellow and blue and green
Faster and faster it turns
A blurred line on my desk
Spinning closer and closer to the ledge
Until it is nothing at all
Faster and faster
Until it tips over the edge
Crashing onto the floor
Breaking and splintering apart
Too broken to fix
It crumbles to dust
And nothing more
Like it never was streaming yellow and blue and green
Like it was never a blurred line
Like it was never
Spectacular

 

aegent

MA

YWP Alumni

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