If I Lived a Thousand Years

She Will Not Be Quiet: A (mostly unedited) daily writing practice

Photo by Matt Fehrenbacher

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Jotting from my journal. Day #86 of (mostly unedited) daily writing/sharing

If I Lived a Thousand Years

still, I'd never grow weary of watching 
the dog wag and flip and roll 
in the green, green grass,

never grow tired of that first sleepy sip
of coffee at the start 
of each new day, 

could never get enough of words and wonder 
and the beaming smiles 
on my daughters' faces.

If I lived a thousand years, I could never spend 
all of this love, never find words worthy 
enough for this wordless web of wonder, 

the wonder at spotting the first fawn lily 
of spring, of the hammock swaying me 
into stillness on this song-saturated new day.

But, I don't have a thousand years, 
I have, only, this right-now breath that, 
already, just now, has passed.

So, I will soak myself in stillness
until this wink of wild wonder
is all there is. And then isn't.

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