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Member Rara Avis
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0 posted 2004-12-11 10:21 PM


Not Enough Time

there’s not enough time
it’s December, again,
the year’s ending, again
almost every morning
when I sit in this chair
contemplating composition
my thought is
“not enough time.”

the thought  comes, echoes,
reverberates
but nothing follows it
clarifying “what” there is not enough time for

today is the first day
in these many weeks
that any addendum has transpired
and yet a puzzling still accompanies
the sensation at hand
for what is there not enough time

it could be almost anything
it could merely be
preamble to closure
the ticking away of the coming days
this side of fifty
when the rope’s knots are burning the hours
to a dwindling few

or is it merely a nagging
that a day holds too few moments
to grasp the meaning in them

no, I think it is the former
rather than the latter
since I’m surely in my latter days
as they tatter away
beneath the moon’s wane

©December 11, 2004

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

© Copyright 2004 Virginia Salter - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2004-12-11 10:51 PM


well written
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