Clocks

It's late at night often, when it strikes me

Just a little tap on the shoulder

To say that I won't always be twenty two

One day I will have crows feet

The longboard I go sailing through the streets on

Will belong to my children

I'll look at it and smile

As one does with things of the past gracefully surrendered

This morning I'm just beginning all of life

Without career, mostly without direction

One day I will age

It seems impossible now, that I won't always look just like this

I won't be able to move this fast

Run this wild

My spirit will go places further than my body ever has

Books will become much more gravely important

Long afternoons in the hammock

Inside the gardens

Lulu

Little lover of life

Will not be so little

Anymore

I dreamt last night that I had long, long sheathes of hair again

I had grown up

In some ways

I wonder sometimes, if we are looking at time the wrong way round

Maybe the Universe moves backwards

Until all that's left is soul and stardust

All of us children in a nursery held by the sky

I don't fear change now

Strange, to feel so old

When you've really only just arrived

Every day becoming freer

Sorting through this enormous technicolor puzzle

Learning over and over right from wrong

Light from light

Me from you

I won't always be twenty two

Someday the whole planet will be able to take one look and see

How long and hard I've laughed

And cried

Age is a number, as they say

A way of keeping track of the sun

And you

Dancing around each other

Smiling full into each other's faces

There was a time only a certain number of days ago

When I didn't yet know how to speak

Couldn't have written this here for you for all the gold in California

But I still can't tie my shoes properly

Certain people never lose that sparkle

God, I pray I'm one of them

Those eyes enormous, full with wonder at it all

Now those last forever

We are all great friends with time

If we could only understand him

No anxiety would flicker through us

We'd never ask why again

But just swim this current

All together now and always

Each in his different wave

But held by the same arms

Everybody waving to each other

Everybody shining