“Life is strong and fragile. It’s a paradox…..It’s both things, like quantum physics: it’s a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together." Joan Jett
so busy
we don't notice
years whizzing by
we don't notice
we have not heard from friends
some dropping off the twig
along with all of the pets
we are shocked
when we run into them
they don 't remember us
we are shocked
the children once baby sat
are
now wedded
now parents
now lawyers
now accountants
now crims
it's amazing to have survived
any of it
to still be here
amazing maybe
because i have been missing
for most of my life
so like me
to arrive at the very end
Oh, I resonate with arriving late...but at least we arrived at all. I am SHOCKED to have a son who is 50.
ReplyDeleteYou are with it here...so much of life, just goes spinning by...and we do feel we have missed most of it.
ReplyDeleteOuch! And also wonder! It is all moving and changing, whether we are aware or not. And after all, is it our job on earth to keep track?
ReplyDeleteLiving can be a circular mess riddled with broken curves. Everyone seems to hit every bump and miss a bunch. Your ending stanza is so good at saying this, we miss so much... getting there out of time.
ReplyDeleteBut there's hope! Even if you arrive at the end, you DO arrive! :)
ReplyDeleteAwareness is both friend and enemy. First in enjoying life and second in counting the days.
ReplyDeleteA friend (now passed) once told me to stop and smell the roses. I still hold dear to his words and memory
ReplyDeleteLuv your poem
much love...
I now believe in "to stand and stare" principle. And that too after being hard hit with a tragedy. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteWhat is this life if, full of care,
DeleteWe have no time to stand and stare.
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
I identify with your words , Rall, especially the lines:
ReplyDelete‘we don't notice
we have not heard from friends
some dropping off the twig’
and
‘amazing maybe
because i have been missing
for most of my life’.
I have only recently (like in the last year or so) started actually living in my body, instead of always being in daydreams or disassociated somehow. Your words fascinate me because I, too, feel like I have been missing for most of my life. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI am certain most of us can relate to this poem, Rall. It is life going by, and us bypassing it. Wonderful!
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