My Life as a Point of a Pencil

 

        pencil

 

         By Gene Aronowitz


Promising
penciled-in possibilities
attached to rubbings
of eraser, brushed
unceremoniously
off the page,
swept up,
placed on
the pyre,
earmarked for
might-have-beens.
I need to change - be bold
like a tip of a pen
daring, indelible.