Broad Leafed Poems | Examples

In the Heart's Time

In the Heart’s Time

I can’t seem to wrap 
My mind around aging 
With it’s homage to achy bones
And knees that hurt like hell
When the rains come

Friends are falling ill
And the end game is creeping up
Like a silent shadow
On a midnight mission
Yet in my heart
Time moves much more slowly
Than calendar pages turn

But sunsets seem more urgent
Now that there are fewer to come
And precious music lifts my spirit
Even higher than ever before

Yet I love more freely now
Unafraid of being vulnerable
To men and women alike
As they journey through my life
Planting memories in my heart
Before moving on to perform 
The same miraculous gifting 
For the next fortunate soul 

So, I choose the heart’s time
As I sit growing older 
Watching shards of sunlight gently caress
The broad-leafed trees of summer…