January 16, 1977

"If in your thoughts you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasonss, and let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing."
Kahlil Gibran

Age: 19

Time

Slow down Father Time.
Rest awhile.
Lay your sickle beneath the Weeping Willow
and sleep.
Let your sons rest their weary arms.
Let them unwind.
Take them away from the ticking and tocking
and ringing.
Find your Grandfather, Father Time.
Take him out of his corner.
Stop his pendullum from swinging.
Let him hear the peace and serenity
of Death.
Slow down Father Time.
And Live.

Background: The beginning of my awareness that time was speeding through my life.