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December 31, 2012

Gristmill


No matter what
Our machinations,
Our time gets eaten up

Seconds seep, lost in thought
In sickness or sorrow
Whole chunks disappear

Youthful hourglasses
Half-full of sand
And half-empty later days

Happiness and joy
Draw deep from our reserve,
Swallowing our time in quick, greedy gulps

Day-to-day routines
Ever-consuming regular bites
… And much sleep

15 comments:

  1. So true that often whole chunks of time disappear, and we have no idea at all where they went. And so true, sleep eats it it up too, which is both a necessity AND a waste (I think).

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  2. Yes, there are far too many 'Ever-consuming regular bites..." and we should take time to just hold the glass a while before we partake!

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  3. Yes, eaten, used, spent! Well put--ground down, we are, to the finest grains. Yet the words and fears of loss--not of health, content, and investment--haunt our perceptions of living. It took more than half of my life to learn what cats already knew about napping.

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  4. Absolutely! every word taken...time flies and at each stage it is different yet the same in substance

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  5. You are right, Eric, 'no matter what' time gets eaten up, for all sorts of reasons. Some seem more legitimate than others.

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  6. Well-penned. Time is indeed something we can't store... it flies away just like that.
    -HA

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  7. This poem says exactly what I feel these days.....time is FLYING past, me running along behind, impossible to catch my breath. Sigh. Well done, kiddo!

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    1. Thanks for reading, Sherry... and thanks for referring to me as "kiddo" too! :)

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  8. Wow Eric. I love the title and the sense of life being ground with each pass of the stone.

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  9. there is no stopping time or trying to recoup...shall we move along... I really enjoyed the way you brought the ordinary to the surface...

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  10. So true... I especially like the fourth stanza.

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  11. we all can relate to this......nice thoughts :)

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  12. Yes..time is lost so easily..and you can never get it back..eloquently put..

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  13. Maybe we should sleep a little less? Or write more to feel like we actually do more?

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