AND HOW (darknite)

AND HOW

And how will you
feel then, when the joy
sets back in
and you're no longer left
to wonder what to do
with what was?
O how you will feel then!

- darknite on Caferati.

I wish I could say how much the size of this poem appeals to me. A single clear thought in just as many words as needed.

In many poems, the words run on long after the thought is over. In my cartoon-obsessed brain, its like Tom chasing Jerry over a cliff and past the edge, continuing to run impossibly on, until mid-air, he looks down and realizes he's run out of ground.