Unforgiving time
I feel it
Creeping up
From behind
Feel it
Entering me
Affecting me
But in the mirror
The effects of time
Are too subtle
Too slow
Does my skin seem
Drier than yesterday
Not so smooth
Not so young
Are those wrinkles
Are those age spots
I can’t tell
Without my glasses
My new glasses
Progressive lenses
My new knee
Progressive deterioration
Time races ahead
Calls to me
From where I’m going
Shows me
In my mother’s face
The deep lines
The pain of rising
From her armchair
She seems so close to…
Death
The end of
Time
Yet still…
Still I feel
As if time stands still
As if I was born just yesterday
That I will never die
That I always was
And always will be
Time is a manifest fiction
Measured with an ephemeral vessel
Housing an infinite spirit
Today
This vessel feels a little
Old
My body
Reminding me
It has only so long
So the I that is forever
Revels in this gift
Of time manifest
Feels the pain
Feels the bliss
Smiles deeply
At a face in the mirror
The face of a vessel
Just visiting time
Now so very deeply lined
Yet it gleefully smiles back
East Lawn
Riverview Hospital
Coquitlam
British Columbia, Canada
Taken on location for Zoo, Season 2, today