What I’d Do
Shontay Luna
I’d gladly do it,
walk a thousand miles
through jungle and sand to
turn back the hand of time.
I’d hold the leathered,
weighty digits in my
grasp. Letting go before
it has enough time to
convert from a hand
shake to a slap.
Each step marking a
moment in my life going
backwards into scenes I
barely recalled until I’m
fully re-learned of
unlearned things. Cooper
was right; life is short, but
wide. And it’s so easy to
forget how far that width
expands.
Did the past even happen?
Did I merely imagine it?
It must’ve transpired;
if I made it up, it would
only contain nice parts.
Like pieces of pale silk;
for the fragments of
burlap wouldn’t exist.
But they do.
walk a thousand miles
through jungle and sand to
turn back the hand of time.
I’d hold the leathered,
weighty digits in my
grasp. Letting go before
it has enough time to
convert from a hand
shake to a slap.
Each step marking a
moment in my life going
backwards into scenes I
barely recalled until I’m
fully re-learned of
unlearned things. Cooper
was right; life is short, but
wide. And it’s so easy to
forget how far that width
expands.
Did the past even happen?
Did I merely imagine it?
It must’ve transpired;
if I made it up, it would
only contain nice parts.
Like pieces of pale silk;
for the fragments of
burlap wouldn’t exist.
But they do.
About the Author
Shontay Luna majored in Poetry at Columbia College Chicago before finishing elsewhere. Her poems have appeared in Olney Magazine, Bullshit Lit, EKL Review, and The Crucible, among others. Her most recent book title is The Goddess Journal – a tool for unlocking the Goddess within every Woman. When not writing, she’s couponing or gleefully hoarding pens and notebooks, and lives in Chicago, IL, with her ‘Sons of Anarchy’ Juan Carlos “Juice” Ortiz photo gallery.