End of a month another month gone
behind us over and done with a month
of my life and yours filled never to
be lived again every day every hour
a lesson in impermanence and yet we
fail to learn refuse to learn even as we
watch the dawn full of magic slip away
into full sun twilight into utter darkness
night again to daybreak the constant
movement of time the earth ever turning
time flowing onward regardless of our
silly slow reluctance to go gracefully
along as if we in our plodding human
ways could do anything about it.
