April 9, 2025: In honor of national poetry month, MyhometownBronxville.com will be featuring poems every week of April written by Bronxville poets. The poem below is by Marjorie Mir.
SOME WRITERS
Let it be said, are thieves.
Look up from their entangling
bonds and the afternoon
is gone. No matter.
Switch on the lamp
and offer hours more.
Thieves, seducers, abductors,
they appear in the motley of pipers,
leading us as children
far and away from Hamelin.
Later, no need for the piping,
unresisting, willingly
we go. More than that,
we search for them,
wait the stealthy seizure
of time, of mind, our lives.
What can explain such weakness,
such abandonment?
Only love and the seducer’s
words, crafty and beguiling
words. No more, no less
than that.