Sara's Poetry Pages - Sara McDarby

This is my time

pulling away from me -

a rubber band
        that stretches
until it
breaks.
         
This is our time,

a snowflake

     beautiful and fragile and melting away
in my hot, heavy-handed grasp.


I've gone from
0 to 44
in the blink of an eye.

from young
to...
not so young
             so quickly
it's given me vertigo.


Nobody lives forever

       it's the mantra
I hear again
                   and again
in my father's voice
                on what turned out to be
his deathbed.


Nobody lives forever

             it's both comforting
and terrifying
            but most of all
incomprehensible.


 

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