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.