All of my tomorrows
have yet to come
I can plan,
wish,
hope,
make my lists
but I’ll only know tomorrow
when it no longer has that name
when it has crept into today and
we awake to our choices in that real world.
“Reality is merely a illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
~ Albert Einstein
What did I notice today?
In the heat
my time short
I didn’t pause,
but on the way back
I noticed it again ~
The heart shaped tree stump.
A tree cut almost down to the ground.
To count the fading rings ~ impossible
It showed me
the inner beauty of trees,
their hearts,
the wood, leaves and shade
we take so much for granted
lives, grows and breathes.
“A tree is beautiful, but what’s more, it has a right to life;
like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential.
Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.”
~ Anton Chekhov,
playwright, short story writer
(1860 - 1904)
A crack in the sidewalk,
jagged and out of place
and I asked myself why
it wasn’t neat and orderly.
The answer rose beside
the question: because the
earth moves. But it doesn’t
stop me from stepping over it
or for children to draw with
chalk for a game of hopscotch
A crack in the sidewalk, jagged
and in the place it was given.
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
~ Dr. Seuss
