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Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 98. About Time
Once a year,
when the dogs have their days
and stars play with a young summer moon,
we celebrate a whole calendar’s worth of days
passing as swift as bloodroot blossoms,
bright and evanescent,
soon to fade.
Undoing
habits of a lifetime,
like squinting to peer close at fine print
and groping for my glasses once the bed is made,
or hiding behind clouded lenses
will take many more years
than I’ve got.
You would think
that after five decades
I could learn to do one simple thing
which everybody seems to have mastered long since;
but I have ever been dull and slow,
not quite grasping how to
love myself.
Not today,
but soon, I’ll have to leave
and cross to that unexplored country
of which a thousand thousand writers speculate
without a bit of firsthand knowledge
to assure travelers
on their way.
If you have comments or reflections to add to my own, I am always happy to read them. You make me glad with your reading.
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