More Time

I wouldn’t mind

Having more time

To waste away

On my cell phone

Or more time

To figure out life

And I wouldn’t mind

Knowing

How time is flowing

I don’t know if I’d want to know

When my time would end

I might be better off trying to pretend

That there is no end

Like so many of us do

One eye on the past,

One eye on the future

And the third eye on the present . . .

But

Sometimes the meaning behind gifts

Shifts

And this present

Is just a piece of the puzzle

And not the missing piece that we think it is

Take a breath and take it all in

What you’ve been

Where you are

And where you can go

It’s all apart of this unknown time flow

That we don’t control

I ask myself,

How can getting more time be a gift

If we don’t do anything with it?

CH 12/20/23