The Hands of Time

Linking with the Sunday Muse for Muse # 88

Time is making fools of us again. ~J.K. Rowling

As a child I tried to swiftly chase time

Wanting to make it move faster ahead

Oil all the levers of every clock

See them dash around with fantastic speed

I longed for now to be later

And for later to be all that now was not

The freedom of adult sized shoes

To carry me where I wanted to go

And that was somewhere else

Up ahead in the distance

not where I stood

Years have passed since then

And I like the place where my adult shoes stand

Now is a precious commodity

I hold it gently yet very close

And I long to slow down the hands of time

Let the moments last longer and take it all in

For I look back and wonder where the time has gone

It slipped through my fingers

While I was so busy looking ahead.

Trying To Fill a Grand Canyon In My Heart

 Photography by Oladios

"I can't see the end of me."

Photo HERE 

Linking with the Sunday Muse for Muse # 80

It would complete me if you would join us....well maybe not, but it would make me happy!

He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson  

When I was 8 years old and looking at my world

 I would dream of perfect places

Living a life I wish I knew

Building a world only my eyes could see

Trying to fill a Grand Canyon in my heart

Years later when I was married and looking in the mirror

I tried to build a perfect place

That all the world could see

Living a life I wish I truly knew

Trying to fill a Grand Canyon in my heart

Now that I am older and looking beyond myself

I have learned that to find fulfillment

I must first be content and honest with who I am

To build a life of purpose that brings me joy

For trying to fill a Grand Canyon in my heart

Has only left me weary and unable to see

What was truly missing all along.

The Stars and Their Stripes

The Mag #245

Also linking with Imaginary Gardens for Kerry's prompt "Iconic people society"

From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring.
~Samuel F. Smith, "America"

She waved her flag for freedom amidst a higher wind

hoping for contentment or just one truer friend

in a world that knows it's legends only by the stars

and the stripes that wave higher seem to have more scars

so hold your banner gently and keep it close in love with pride

for fulfillment cannot be reached for it is a flag that waves inside.

 

 





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My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

~William Shakespeare