time after time

do the seconds
of my life
pile upward like
a tottering tower

or slurry downward
like sand into
the sea?

perhaps a life-time
is a fire-arrow
like a meteor arcing
across the sky

upward is the way
to heaven

being rests
timeless
in the human
heart

for now,
i happen to have
a wounded brain––

i think and there’s
no thought

i hear not quite
well enough
& the meaning’s
lost

my eyes are
squinting at a future
that is no longer
clear

what will i
see
when i greet
the sun
with closed
eyes?

will our hearts
be beating
in the time after
time?

we are as free
as freedom itself
to be