"Marathon" by E. Ethelbert Miller

Eugene Ethelbert Miller was born in the Bronx in 1950. He earned his BA in African American Studies at Howard University, where he has served as director of the African American Studies Resource Center since 1974. He received a Columbia Merit Award in 1993, became an honorary citizen of Baltimore in 1994, and was honored by First Lady Laura Bush at the White House in 2003.

Marathon
by E. Ethelbert Miller

it’s a strange time which finds me jogging
in early morning
the deadness of sleep alive in this world
the empty parks filled with unloved strangers
buildings grey with solitude
now near the end of another decade
i am witness to the loss of my twenties
a promise invisible
i run without purpose
far from the north star
i run with the sound of barking dogs closing in
i have lost count of the miles
i am older and nothing much matters
or has changed




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