Art, Photography, Sue Vincent

Tempus fugit

Sue Vincent

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In the silence of a home once full of noise,

A clock is ticking.

Suddenly I know…

Every second marks a moment,

Another chunk of time

Leaves the future,

Slides through the present

Becomes the past…

As I listen.

And this is me,

A life ticking away.

How many seconds pass in reverie?

How many lost unmarked

And unremarked

Beyond my reach?

I cannot call them back,

Cannot rewind, relive

Refill with memories.

Once they are gone, done,

Lost in the mists,

Wandering the mind

Like aimless ghosts

I cannot change them.

And so I breathe,

Inhaling seconds as they pass,

Filling each one,

With something, anything

To make them count,

Make them sparkle

Make them burn..

Branded in memory.

My life is wide,

Embracing tomorrow

When it is today

And the clock can tick,

Counting my laughter

As the years pass.

Published by Sue Vincent

Sue Vincent was a Yorkshire born writer, esoteric teacher and a Director of The Silent Eye. She was immersed in the Mysteries all her life. Sue maintained a popular blog and is co-author of The Mystical Hexagram with Dr G.M.Vasey. Sue lived in Buckinghamshire, having been stranded there due to an accident with a blindfold, a pin and a map. She had a lasting love-affair with the landscape of Albion, the hidden country of the heart. Sue  passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.

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