Stephen Ellis

Rondeau

Afraid of how
time is past, but
not gone, I

search to pass
even more of it,
trying to feel

as it goes,
full of its vibrations
in the present,

metaphysical
in tenor
and producing

some relief,
but making me
humble enough

that I know I will be
doing this
as I do it now

for as long as
I'll be able
to remember.

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