Chronology

Time defines us –all the way from thatrandom delivered date of birth,through the demanding daily tick-tock,till the tall pendulum stops swingingand the numbers are, at last, engravedin ornamental stone.Time defies us –despite all our wishful effortsto slow down or even stopthe relentless moving sidewalk,step to one side for just a moment,look back and look ahead, take stock,maybe even change direction.Time delights us –when every once in a long whiletime disappears, just vanishes whileone is making things, things like music,meals, a baby, or fresh fashioned prayer,even a poem, perhaps, that can echostil lness to the hours of our days.
Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - Category: Geriatrics Tags: Poem Source Type: research