When Sands No Longer Whisper

Life as it is ...

When Sands No Longer Whisper

Written By Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham

Copyright © 2017 Marvin Thomas Cox

DBA: Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham

All Rights Reserved

Sinking upon the sea of life,

youth's arrogance run aground

no bearings to mark a position,

old friends no longer found.

'Twas only just yesterday,

yesterday some forty years ago,

a time when we were so young,

and time it moved so slow.

But time is a rolling stone,

rolling stones gather no moss,

one by one I see them dying,

feel the pain of their loss.

Candles lighting my life,

one by one are flickering out,

as the arrogance of my youth,

turns to fear and doubt.

The mirror reveals a face,

of someone that I never knew,

a man tired old and wrinkled,

clueless to how time flew.

Memories flood my mind,

life is passing before my eyes,

is there one thing that's worthy,

to remember when I die.

Grains cease their tinkling,

a dead silence now fills the air,

as sands no longer whispering,

come to rest without care.

Living like no tomorrow,

clueless to when life shall pass,

'twas the plight of my insanity,

for life's but an hourglass.

There always comes a time,

when sands no longer whisper,

all the silence of our passing,

our only remaining vesper.

(Written December 21^st, 2017)

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

Sadly the egg timer has a habit of making an appearance as we age. No egg timers in sight when we are young and the world is our oyster. A melancholy write but a relatable one for anyone who is of a certain age and continues to look in the mirror. I try my utmost to think myself young. My grandkids live with us, all in their twenties which helps. Lovely poetry Marvin and well crafted too.

Chris

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham]

Thank you, Chris, for taking the time to read my philosophical thoughts set to pen of page, and for the very kind words ...

[Chris Shaw]

You are welcome:)

[JayG]

• Copyright © 2017 Marvin Thomas Cox

If you look into it, you'll find that we gain a copyright automatically on creation. So the act of publishing it here defines that, with no notice necessary. The notice, and what's under it says only that you're trying to make the piece sound as if it was written by a pro. So you might want to dump it.

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham]

Thanks for the offer of advice, but I have learned the hard way that one is always wise to protect themselves and their work. In fact, I adopted this style of presenting my work via the sound advice of my friend, mentor, and renowned Poet, Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU (https://allpoetry.com/Andre_ben-YEHU) who has kindly assisted and schooled a number of up and coming writers that did, eventually see their work published and sold professionally, one of whom is American Poet, Aberjhani & his book The American Poet Who Went Home Again of which I do own a personal copy of. Thus, there is not intent of pretense towards any given appearance of anything but that of wisely presenting my own work as factually being written by me and me alone ... Therefore, for now anyway, I shall retain my presentation of my own work as I do see fit ... I have been writing, fairly poorly at times, since I was a young teenager, which doesn't say much except to lead up to the reality that I am now 67 years old and the odds of me turning or going pro, at this stage in my life, are pretty damn slim to none ... Unless, of course, I self publish at my own personal expense ... And, in fact, I do have a book prepared that I do intend to self publish as a story collection, if you should be that I live long enough to do so ... As for poetry? ... Nah, I express my philosophical thoughts and feelings via Poetry, but I have never considered myself a Poet, per se ...Hence, I gave up the dream of turning pro years ago, and only post on this site, a site I have been a member on many times before, yes in times of Trolling members and the lack of capcatchka, and have returned only to seek to share my writing on a lowly basis and enjoy the writing of others, as, for a time at least, it appeared that his site was literally dying, and I hate to see such an end come to one of the few writing sites left ... Thank you for your valued thoughts and input ...

Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham

[JayG]

The thing to remember is that the copyright provides almost zero protection for you. Unless you buy the full copyright you can only send a "stop that," notice, not sue for damages. And in reality, who's going to make any money selling work that you can't sell? And what thief is going to pay attention to the notice?

If you do get the full copyright, you STILL have to sue them in their jurisdiction. And since you've suffered no monetary damages...

That's why the publisher is usually the one who pays for and sues for copyright infringement.

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham]

Thanks for the valuable information ... I most certainly and obviously do not know it all ... LOL!

[Charlie Bynar]

I enjoyed the melancholy review of time passing, the rhyme, and the questions one asks oneself as they look back.

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham]

Thank you so very much for reading, and for the very kind words ... Sadly, the message of this piece came to fruitions reality as I lost my wife this past January ... They say life goes on ... I am not so sure about that ... At least, if it does, after 49 years with the same woman life will never be the same again, ever ...

Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham

[Charlie Bynar]

First, I am sorry for your loss. After being together for 49 years, it would seem that her passing would leave an empty spot in you that nothing can address-nothing can fix. It's just a presence one has to learn how to carry-not easy, very challenging. I hope you have friends and family to help you along this difficult path.

I must have recognized the forlorn melancholy in your poem as I too have lost people which has left its mark on me.