Sunday, August 10, 2014

circles of time




circles of time

the girl waiting to become a woman
smiled as she watched me
from across the room
her clear blue eyes
stuttering in anticipation
like the hands
on an ancient hallway clock
counting down the seconds
the minutes
the hours
the days
the months and the years
that she had endured
to arrive at this single axis
in the unending circles of time
and as she peeled
the bed covers aside
i said a silent prayer
that i might not falter
through the rise of night
and the urgency of desire
to be the one for her
but i hesitated
a second
a minute
an hour
a day
a month and a year too long
and what might have been
slipped by in an instant
sending her drifting into shadows
with only a final whispered thought
that every moment embraces
every other moment before it
and defines all the moments
yet to come


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5 comments:

  1. What a truly beautiful song ... absolutely love it!!
    Thats the beauty of circles ... they go round and round and are never ending ... so we probably pass the same moment many times within our cycle ... searching for that something .... that is still there waiting ... but we hurry on by .... funny thing time .....~smile~ ...

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    1. Yes, time can be fairly indifferent to us if we let it ...

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  2. You know me, love; I refuse to dissect your poetry, but rather choose to enjoy it for all that it has to offer.

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  3. Is it not the mark of a great writer to offer each reader an individual interpretation. A writer is a person who is passionately in love with language and it takes a great writer to offer many different interpretations within his own interpretation.
    All art is open to individual interpretation.

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  4. every moment embraces
    every other moment before it
    and defines all the moments
    yet to come...

    I love these thought-provoking last lines. I have the feeling I should quote that sometime at an appropriately literary moment.. great stuff :)

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