Timekeeper

Let Nature dominate you.

Let live the things you would

control or kill with all sorts of

products and philosophies that end

in “ism” and “cide.” Let the grass

grow a little taller than the

disapproving neighbors might

wish. Let your lovers, too, have

their way with you, with all that

they bring to you by way of monsoon

and canicula, drought, and hurricane.

Let it all remind you why we use

our largest natural disasters to

mark the timelines of individual lives.

Earthquakes and marriages. The

birth of your unplanned daughter.

The sense of loss when she moved

out. Meteor impacts. Extinctions.

Use it all to measure the influence

of any one lifetime, by decade.

There is grand power in recognizing

that you were never the greatest

force in your own days of

timekeeping and best intentions.

 

 

Author's Note

translated from my original written in Spanish for club Casa los Altos.

http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/zorra_encantada/2045879/

Reviews

[charlie]

A life organic. There is something Taoistic to this write: a sort of surrendering of self to know the Self, and what may - by virtue of Nature - both furnish and fuel this 'being'; this 'becoming'; this 'belittling'; this 'be-livingness' ....

I love these lines:
"Let the grass
grow a little taller than the
disapproving neighbors might
wish. Let your lovers, too, have
their way with you, with all that
they bring to you by way of monsoon
and canicula, drought, and hurricane."