The wall is a simple screen

Ron Sharpe

separating yesterday from today
an open door to linked rooms 
binding sorrow to routine. 

The far room is 20 feet
and there are beings there 
I know well still
backs still arched 
in perfect indolence 
paws forever prancing 
the same four square.

The years pass
and both rooms present 
my dear choice
which one to choose.