Every Life Is But A Sand Sifting HourglassA Poem by Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de GrahamEvery Life Is But A Sand Sifting Hourglass
Written By Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham Copyright © 2023 Marvin Thomas Cox DBA: Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham All Rights Reserved
Every Life, in clarity's singularity, is unique in and of itself, whether such Life be that of Human, Animal, or lowly Plant: Leafy Vegetable, or indelibly inedible. All Life is incredible, inexplicable, and most of all: Incomprehensible. Life is blissed as a precious gift, in, simply, being Life!
Life is but a sand sifting hourglass, an hourglass that springs to living Life, in all forms of variety's shapes and sizes: Some quite big and some quite small, some quite short and some quite tall, some quite fat and some quite skinny, As for given volume of grains of sand? Some quite few and some quite many.
Life is an indeterminably fragile hourglass, an hourglass hellbent upon emptying Life, as sifting sands of time ever passing by, grain by grain, of moment by moment, of day by day becoming year by year, of years in youth lived in elusive illusion, of time, seemingly, standing still, unchanging, and so, we think to remain forever young.
Until, we find ourselves suddenly awakened, as illusion vanishes, to reveal reality concealed: Time was never standing still, but was slowly, ever so imperceptibly and near undetectably, becoming grains of sand that once whispered, that now shriek to the tune of, “How Time Flies!” Our life's hourglass, we now view in surprise: 'Tis almost empty, the sand sifting ever faster. If luckily blissed, we shall soon face old age, as the last few grains confirm us as mortal, after all …
(Written May 17th, 2023) © 2023 Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham
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4 Reviews Added on May 17, 2023 Last Updated on May 17, 2023 Tags: Life, Existence, Youth, Time, Old Age, Growing-Older, Death, Mortality, Philosophy AuthorMarvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de GrahamSmalltown, TXAbout“Hello! Welcome to my profile page. As a Creative Writer, I pen a variety of material that ranges from piss poor attempts at Poetry, to morbidly Dark Fiction, to investigative, in depth, re.. more..Writing
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