Blackberries

BLACKBERRIES

Because if you don’t pause on the river-

walk to pick the blackberries

it might just be too late for you. 

and it might just be too late for you

if you do stop to pick them 

and pick them all, every last one. 

And if you are wondering

where you might fall and if maybe

it might just be too late for you, 

you’ll never pause to see 

the bush aflame with blackberries,

here, with you, and something else

which is never late.