It's Time

Exploring mortality, nature, human suffering and the unstoppable movement of time.

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It's time.

I don't need the reaper's gentle invite:

A child, just today,

had his life squeezed from him. No more than 6.

You'd think

the gods who proclaim mercy and who expect forgiveness
would also play fair.

It's time.

I don't need the friendly whisper of darkness, beckoning:

Just yesterday,

when the world

was transfixed by some political scandal,

a mother and her husband

planning a party,

crossed the road at the wrong time,

and never saw what hit them.

It's time.

I don’t need the comfort of fading nostalgia.

Another couple

married for 65 years,

had met during the war when

nothing was certain,

certain their love would last.

They stayed together

because they fought together,

And when

he sighed his last breath,

she followed soon after,

certain this was a battle she could not fight alone.

It's time.

I don't need more soothing fragments:

a 23-year-old

took his life
after being disowned for loving
someone twice his age.

He dreamed

of making it big in the movies
but his dreams were too small
to carry the weight of a broken heart.

It's time.

I don’t need the forest’s embrace:

A leech

longer than you have seen,

chases the trace of a blue earthworm.

It ends

with the worm being swallowed whole,

alive.

The leech

is later eaten by a bird

who, in turn

succumbs

to a ravenous raccoon.

The raccon

is poisoned
by an intolerant bigot whose recent promotion leads
to a night of senseless indifference.

It's time.

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It's Time

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Author Interview on the Zach Feldman Radio Show - Listen Here
New poems: 'Talk To Me' , 'Gel' , 'It's Time'
Professional actors discuss The Pebble Champion screenplay
Video review of The Pebble Champion