How Have the Years So Suddenly Gone By

December 8, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme, with the approach of the holiday season, is Happy Holidays.

Today’s poem is about celebrations as stations in our journey through time.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

How have the years so suddenly gone by?

As though we were distracted on a train,

Perhaps absorbed in fantasy, terrain

Passing shuttered from the inner eye.

Yet when the train stops, shuddering through each car --

Holiday or birthday, wedding, wake --

Old enough to feel time's wistful ache,

Looking up, we wonder where we are.

In time, we see the need for celebration;

Days unmarked are lost within the flow.

A journey needs its moment in the station,

Yielding motion to restored relation,

So fleeting one is loath to let it go.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/howha2.html. For more poems for the holiday season, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/seasonsgreetingspoems.html.

This week’s theme: Happy Holidays.

December 5: Have a Happy Holiday

December 6: Heaven Is a Hollow in the Heart

December 7: Happiness Is Not a Holiday

December 8: How Have the Years So Suddenly Gone By