Saturday, May 4, 2024

Sand for my hour glass Nov. 11, 2013

 

I come to the beach

Seeking sand for my hour glass,

Time slipping away,

Like a doomsayer

Predicting the end of eternity,

Tea leaves and portends

All stirred up inside me

Like a witch’s brew

A sense of change

As the grains

Slip through my fingers,

No matter how tightly

I grip, or perhaps

Because I grip too hard,

To buy back days of joy

I don’t deserve,

The universe altered,

Upended

Recreated

Into something else,

Something in which

I do not fit,

Gripping the memory of it

Even as I think

She forgets.

 

 


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