The unexplainable allure
of the golden hour,
the fragrance
of oak logs
smoldering sweetly
in the campfire,
coffee brewing long
before the sun rises,
a loved one’s
unique laugh or
quirky sense of humor.
Each of these little
idiosyncrasies
enveloping us,
in every moment
that we’ve
become indifferent to
and take, mostly,
for granted,
Someday,
we will experience
every one of these
marvelous things that
make our life experience
uniquely our own
for the very last time,
and we never know when.
Until we
awaken, fully,
to our transitory nature
to the extent
that we hear
reminders of it
constantly whispered
in the wind
we’re not truly alive,
none of us know
what’s around the next bend,
we never know when,
never know when.
~Eric Vance Walton~
All for now. Trust your instincts, invest in you, live boldly, and take chances.
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Poetry should move us, it should change us, it should glitch our brains, shift our moods to another frequency. Poetry should evoke feelings of melancholy, whimsy, it should remind us what it feels like to be in love, or cause us to think about something in a completely different way. I view poetry, and all art really, as a temporary and fragile bridge between our world and a more pure and refined one. This is a world we could bring into creation if enough of us believed in it. This book is ephemera, destined to end up forgotten, lingering on some dusty shelf or tucked away in a dark attic. Yet the words, they will live on in memory. I hope these words become a part of you, bubble up into your memory when you least expect them to and make you feel a little more alive.
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