Today is World Poetry Day, an international celebration of the reading, writing, teaching, and overall enjoyment of poetry around the globe.
This poem was inspired by one of my favorite poets, T. S. Eliot, listening to Matt and Kim, and generally just feeling in awe of being alive and witnessing life.
Enjoy!
Take Back the Daylight
By RMK
Time to see the little houses on the hills.
And time for the trees, and time
For all the things you cannot dream.
Time for thinking all the thoughts
That come in streams to play
Along your mindbed, Time, time today.
Time to be ravished by mountains,
And moons, and music too. The sounds of
Being alive, tick tock, beat beat, did you hear
About that one time Time stopped?
The myth, the legend, of love and
Fantasy, dreaming in the daylight.
Time to build a life, a building life,
Create your masterpiece out of Time,
And all the bits of matter you can find
That matter to you, and the matterless,
The mindfull, the things you can take
Temporarily, and make lasting at last.
Time for you, and time for them,
And time for breaking down, and building
Back up, reinventing and seeing again
What was not seen as seconds passed.
Time for all the dreams I may have dreamed
To live with eyes opened, and snore less.
Time for all the pleasures life affords,
Time for all the suffering you can handle,
Burn with the candle, Candle, can you?
Time for the hour, time to take back time,
Remember, remember, how those days were
Divine? How we looked at the daylight,
with awe in mind, in heart, in spirit, felt it
In your bones, that being-alive-beyond-time
Feeling. Feeling the daylight without clock-hands.
