30 Poems in 30 Days: The Gentle Lift of Air (10/30)
10 June 2007
The Gentle Lift of Air
by Daniel R Stout
Turning back the clock
is harder than it sounds.
Year in to year out
the body renews and decays
the ebb of life’s tide
pulls us back out to sea.
There is a place where
people live long and
in fact
never die.
It’s in California somewhere.
But for mortals, millions
living now
will die soon.
Why must that be?
Will people of the future
all move to that California
town to live forever
or will we be confined to
the prison of life?
A butterfly’s wings beat
and the breeze blows it along.
We are the butterflies floating in the
breeze of time — moving us through
stage after stage —
birth, school, work, death and beyond.
Tomorrow will arrive in due time
but for now enjoy the gentle lift
of air as we drift towards the water.
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