People Poems · CTP-0107

Today, Forever, Happy

2024-11-15 · Miami

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Transcription

A better keeper of the verse said childlike grace opens for those who can see eternity in an hour—as prophet poets, perhaps we can not all be so precise as to find the forever within so acute an angle on the unrelenting face of a clock, but, perhaps, within the circumference, complete, can we open our hands—lifelines and palms, all, and digits, thumbs to receive: in one, the forever that lives in each day; in the other, happiness and grace!