Unfastened

By lupus tenebrae

I wore yesterday as a
loose-fitting jacket
with still water trapped

in its tenuous
fibers

...and at day's end
it fell, unfastened,
at my side.

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Copyright 2014 lupus tenebrae
Published on Monday, May 5, 2014.     Filed under: "Poetry"

Author's Note:

Based on a fleeting thought that I had before turning in for the night.
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  • rwb35 On Sunday, November 8, 2015, rwb35 (64)By person wrote:

    A nice take on time passing. Concise

  • A former member wrote: ...forever to pass, forever to be lost but that is what was meant. If we all could do so what smiles would abound. What ease in breath, what shoulders high instead of weighted with the woe of the world that was. Man. Truly there is only Now.

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