frail man in the corner.
He reaches out,
and shows me what could have been.
I turn and ask him,
"Why not?"
A gnarled finger points,
direcly at the walls I have built,
And a cracked voice replies,
"Because."
To see it at poetry.com, simply go to the site and enter Johnson as last name and Danielle as first. This will give you a list of people with the same name (freaky) and the names of their poems. Scroll down and look for "Because" then click on the link.
