Tag: change

Time and Change

I stand on the edge
Of a hundred million years
Changing, changing, changing
Always change

One score and five thousand years ago
Human eyes came to see
Human hands learned to make

All our grandiose change
No match for nature’s hand

Sometimes
The ripples of change
Become frozen
Caught in time
Like the waves
Lapping up on the fringe
Of a freezing lake

And I am the ship
Caught in arctic ice
Waiting out the season
Hoping for the sea to open

To explore other worlds
I must cross the boundaries
I’ve erected to contain my own

Caught up in the gloom
She went to the shore

Black rock
Charcoal sea
Flat grey sky

A scene to fit her mood
Remnants of a storm in passing

The waves, still high
Thrashed the shore
Flashes of brightness
In the monochromatic bleak

It occurred to her
Something needed to change

Cattails sway
Moved by the breeze
Summer songs
Giving way
To crows and jays
While summer’s creatures
Burrow deep
Or fly away

Soothed
By gentle light
And subtle colour
Fall’s transition
Life retired
The air goes cold
Wafts of change
Await the spring
To be renewed

There’s a storm
Just this side
Of the horizon

It’s lingered there
As long as I remember

While the horizon calls to me

I’m not sure
Whether I’m alone now
Because I’m tired of getting hurt
Or I’m tired of hurting others
Somewhere I lost track
Maybe it’s both

I’m not sure
What needs to change
What needs to heal
What I need to fix

A different Tantalus
Every viewing
Just like
Everything else

No thing
No one
No place
No moment
No emotion
No insight

Is ever the same
One moment
To the next

Sometimes
It is not the water
Which troubles me
But the bridge

Held fast
In anticipation
Of departure
Imminent

Not clinging
Preparing
To leap