Monday, April 21

Tomorrow

"Every instant of time is a pinprick of eternity."
~ Marcus Aurelius, AD 121-80: Meditations


He knows it is imminent.
As he plays with nothingness,
He knows it is coming...

He looks around for a book to read,
Or a pen or a paper, his hands to be buried.
{He knows it is imminent!}

His eyes dart to the floor
His arduous pleas would steel thereafter, [by the door];
He knows it is coming.

And yet, he fancies;
He is so nervous he could break a wall.
He knows it is imminent.
He knows it is coming.

2 Wanderer's Words:

Lucid Darkness said...

It's the anxiety of a wait. It makes you want to tear out your limbs in frustration... that time isn't moving fast enough.

But yes, I'm sure "Tomorrow" will come.
And you know it as well.

PianoPoet said...

Heh. I wrote my very first poem, at the age of about eight, on the topic "tomorrow". It basically stated, not so sublimely, that I was sick and tired of waiting. I later discovered that Shakespeare had been inspired by this to write "tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day..."