Poem to a friend at 50

Creative Strategy #29: Take time

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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