And This, Too, Shall Pass Away
the state of man: inconstancy, boredom, anxiety.
– Blaise Pascal
there are days
i feel i am
far too familiar
with simply existing
and too much a stranger to life.
and there are nights
i wake and
cannot wait
another minute for the day.
then there are times
it seems this road
i’m on goes
on and on forever;
never ends . . .
never ends . . .
but though the journey
continues as if here it were everlasting –
walking with my head bowed low,
i know better.
– Jerry Dan Deutschendorf