LINES OF WINTER
Tell yourself
as it gets cold
and gray falls from the air
that you will go on
walking, hearing
the same tune no matter where
you find yourself-inside the dome of dark
or under the cracking white
of the moon's gaze in a valley of snow.Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tunes your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars.
And if it happens that you cannot
go on or turn back
and you find yourself
where you will be at the end,
tell yourself
in the final flowing of cold through your limbs
that you love where you are.
— Mark Strand
Making time, time marches on, a time to reap, a time to sow, timeless, time waits for no man, time after time, short time, end time, time for dinner, a time to be born, a time to die, tea time, time marches on, night time, day time, anytime, sometime, time after time, time travel, time of day, time marches on.................
Can you remember the time when you ....................... or the time when......................? Is this the time of your life or endless time? Do you have enough time to do what you want, to do what you can, to do what you need to? Is time short or never ending? If you had enough time what would you do with it? Or do you have so little time you can't do enough? Was it just yesterday when your adult child was a baby? Will you put it off until tomorrow, or will tomorrow never come? Are you stuck in time or is time flying? Is your time present, past, or future? If you could travel through time where would you be? If time stood still where would you be? Tick, tick, tick - time.
"Tell yourself...........that you love where you are."
