Front Porch Review
A literary magazine for the young at heart and mind

An innocent bird chirps;
there is plenty of seed.

A deer grazes;
where grass is
there is his home

Happy are animals,
who enjoy life
as it is.
Happy here and now,
nothing else exists.

Regretfully I have
too much knowledge,
too much awareness
of what is to come.
Life's brief duration,
I worry too much.

I know time
is sweeping me
inevitably
towards old age,
preventing me
from giving my body and soul
to happiness.

Sometimes the thought
flashes through my mind –
why were we told
about our end?

By Edward Rodosek

Edward Rodosek is a Senior Professor in the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, European Union. Beside his professional work he writes science fiction. More than ninety of his short stories have been published in SF magazines in the USA, UK, Australia and India. Recently he published a US collection of short stories entitled Beyond Perception. His e-mail address: Edward Rodosek