Another failed poem

The days of my life rain fall like leaves
at your feet, any

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I the The days of my life, like falling leaves, pass
thru the space between your head and mine. We look
toward

We look at each other, then away – you’re looking
in the distance somewhere, but I’m studying the bark

of this tree, its whorls and knots as distinct
as a fingerprint, or so I’m told. I don’t know

how can anyone know anything? Direct observation,
I suppose

                 There are too many variables
to truly know, to really have