If

If I do 
it’s only to
share what I’ve 
become the things 
that I’ve found 
and not the 
the things forgotten 
for those things 
no longer make 
or matter except 
as a natter 
of long ago 
battles and wars
but maybe the 
scars of skirmishes 
seen and counted 
in dim light 
after or before 
and then tales
of long ago 
told around the 
campfire of passion