The Year's Passage Poem by Benjamin Chiu Uy

The Year'sPassage

Commemorate, marked in stones, the birthdays,
The year'spassage,
All the beautiful flowers, all the young leaves, young lovers,
Remember the flying years, how it went in those trying years,

young as you were then now, is becoming the weathered shed of old men
you have deteriorated into,

How the hearts and the skins betrays the hunters, the young princes and the old miseries are alike,
How visions and acuities fails, and knowledge and power are inadmissible incompetent,

Testaments, last appeals andsignatures are irrelevant,

Achievements are less than all the answers you could get, were trying to gain,

Inappropriate to the lifetime searches and the impossible tasks,

Destiny provides no answers,
Destiny provides a numbers on old clocks,

Impossible the men, the Gods the man that you have become, in trying,
Less than all these years you were trying to become a man.