In Babbling Brooks
The flow of time and I but a stone in the current
Upstream I cannot know,
Downstream but a memory.
Piece by piece I am worn,
To the past I become,
A shadow of what went before.
But I stem the flow, life's blood,
Staunch and strong,
Present in this single moment.
Stoic
Copyright © Stephen Allen | Year Posted 2013
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