Poem to a friend at 50
Creative Strategy #29: Take time
A year is but a bagatelle
A decade trifle more
A span of time accumulates
As waves upon a shore
So seamless & redundant
That we do not see it pass
Each moment after moment
& each seems like the last
For a century’s a roundabout
Of galaxies & dust
& half of that is nothing
But the very sum of us
–Patrick O’Leary