The time seemed interminable
Nothing to do
The very idea – somehow it’s true
The depths seemed unfathomable
Nothing to see
The hard expectation – a great mystery
The roads seemed innumerable
Nothing to know
The long lonesome journey – the right way to go
Planets rotate in the sky
Slowly pass me by
I hold on dangling so high
Can’t find place to land
People all around me stand
Who will take my hand?
Ground keeps shifting in this race
Can’t hold onto space
I blink, I’m in a different place
Endless hall of mirrors
Time’s mirages – minutes, years
Ringing in my ears
Grains of sand spill out, away
I can’t make them stay
Clashing notes and strange tunes play
Running through my mind
Memory clips repeat, rewind
Searching – what to find?
Dark river beds so far below
Rushing with torrents full of rain
So many muddy memories held
Entangled joy, sadness, and pain
They saturate the ground below
And always upward ebb and flow
To bring forgotten back to life
What so long dormant there has lain
Through crevices in life’s hard rock
Waters of the past permeate
Changing brick to quicksand mud
Unstable, sudden falls create
They turn the world upside down
To wash away or even drown
Before the present rights itself
And thoughts and feelings can abate
So much to lose – so much to gain
From the past’s watermarked stain
Though hard, it never is too late
To learn from memories that await
The times are ever changing
When is not the time for change?
Always growing, starting, ending
Things are different, time so strange
Treasured things slip by so fast
Hoped for things come by so slow
They say hurry up and wait but
Really you can’t ever know
What today is promised sure
Tomorrow may completely shift
Like a mirage it disappears
Into an atmospheric rift
Don’t give up though just because
Your plans change from what you knew
Your hope, your future is all planned
In the right time it will come true
The turning of a year
New number for each day
A new start now is here
Enter, find a way
The leaving of a year
Year full of joy and pain
So many hard things, fear
More victories won again
The starting of a year
New hope, new doors to find
Fresh slate of time appear
Leave harmful things behind
The ending of a year
So much to, thankful, say
It was worth every tear
To be right here today
Change moves like the rolling tide
Slow but unstoppable force
Pushing in or out to sea
Inexorably from the source
Moment’s glance can never tell
What direction is its course
Brilliant sky and blazing sun
Paint the ocean aqua green
Tempest winds and tall dark clouds
Turn it to a stormy scene
Sunset’s glowing reds and golds
Calm the waves by evening
Each molecule only turns
Within the wave round and round
But great ships are miles moved
Out to sea or run aground
Such subtle shifts with such great change
Nowhere else on earth are found
