Transience

A Poem

Photo by William Santos on Unsplash

& the face the body
the nerves
all blur as the image in the mirror
begins to walk away
Captured
for all of a second
then sent into the tower of time
to answer for the body’s
betrayal
The hope of movement
now further now closer
a shifting horizon
an unsteady plate
a hill with every grade
Bought into the failure of the precipice
the inordinate exchange
of footsteps for the seat
the trial begins by showing
what happened
in the middle

J.D. Harms 2020