Thursday, March 28, 2024

There Isn’t Time Left

 

 

I become weary, gracefully disagreeable.

Never as it could be; never as it was.

Maybe better; maybe worse.  I ran the good

Fight; I tired short of the goal line.

And you have uncertainty; and you have 

Certainty.  I could hear it. It dances where

It rivers: sunlit promises, war-bound

Innocence.  Maybe more than a glint, a 

Glowing heart, a midocean casualty.  In 

Seeing it was writhing, made existence 

Difficult. In sensing it ballet, made for 

Lucky absence.  I was fraught by dice, edged

By memories, to have unlikely dreams. I 

Sit at an impasse; life is chasing swiftly.        

Time was Brief

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