Time Travel

 

From conception, into birth,

from childhood, into youth,

from youth, into a young adult

is but a short journey on a long pier

 

A time for learning / A time for doing

 

Adults usually go on in blind flurry, doing.

Middle age meanders along that – shorter – pier,

looking into the waters, seeing life passing by,

catching glimpses of, reflections gaily dancing,

and reflecting upon the pier walk, thus far

 

A time to acquire / A time for losses

 

Wisdom in old age, it becomes a slow and painful walk,

- off what has become - in time’s passing – a short pier –

that has taken all seven – not to heaven – on a long, arduous

journey through rough seas – old age sees the essence of  life,

time and space - yet throughout the journey, wonders ?,

what was it ?, what is it ?, that could be, have been his place.

 

B .J. “A” 2

November 25^th 2004