TIME & ETERNITY

Seconds, minutes, 

hours, and days, 

all but human constructs

keeping time in a line

while this very instant,

and each one passing,

is but a momentary blip, 

the transitory tip of eternity,

crashing time’s continuum.

And here in turn, at the now

where time slices through 

the bread of all things infinite 

with the blade of temporality,  

the two become one. 

Like lovers they merge, 

each time as if never before, 

every time knowing never again, 

then move on, leaving only lingerings.

And the all of it before our blearied eyes.

Meanwhile, we long to wander in wonder,

as if we haven’t a care in the cosmos. 

Oh, wouldn’t that be the kiss of bliss.