L. J. Carber Poet Free verse

The Eternal Moment

As a child
I thought of eternity 
as endless...
days and months and 
years and centuries,
then millennia and 
billions and trillions of
boring, boring years--
what would I do
when I had all the time 
in the universe...?

Now as an old man 
I know time is a liar,
itself unreal, an illusion 
born of sweat, fear,
the loneliness of spirit 
in a cold material world.

Now I can see how eternity 
is always here,  next to us,
within us, that moment 
none can grasp nor 
measure nor repeat, 
the endless moment,
that indistinguishable point 
between past and future, 
between what was--
what will be--
the soul's singularity, 
its alpha and omega.

And all our heavy fears 
of extinction are like 
wasted breath...
for we are real 
and time is not--
we--we are the 
eternal moments....

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