Sunset is just around the bend. Come in!

By cadymae


How does it feel inhabiting your flesh, pre-decay?
It feels like life itself! 

Yet you pay no mind.

You'll note and gnaw when it gives out but that is to come
Right now you pay your body no thought

Your elastic skin is like a new rubber band
snapping back briskly, usefully. Unlike

That rotted one on grandma's checkbook
that has segmented into uselessness
like grandma herself?

Don't fret.  That is far ahead.  That's not you, yet. 

But hints of winter are in the late summer breeze.
Raise your eyes up.  Look ahead. Sniff what's coming.
It makes tonight that much sweeter.





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Copyright 2012 cadymae
Published on Monday, October 15, 2012.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • carlosjackal On Sunday, July 2, 2017, carlosjackal (3012)By person wrote:

    Ah, this is stunning and a timely reminder.

  • FadedBlues On Tuesday, October 16, 2012, FadedBlues (2169)By person wrote:

    ...we are aware of the fleeting nature of time, but to dwell on it would be too depressing. 'Gather ye rosebuds while ye may'...

  • Alchemist On Monday, October 15, 2012, Alchemist (688)By person wrote:

    We die every day we live but we are a rejuvenative creature aswell, we are contradictions (decay in growth). Love it

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