The Colonnade of Time

THE COLONNADE OF TIME

We move along a colonnade.

Sometimes we are in shadow.

Sometimes the full sun

Blazes on us

And illuminates our path.

*

We look out between the columns

To see others perambulating.

Some may run, some may dawdle,

Some may falter and

Some may fall.

*

We wave to them

But we can never know them

Because we do not really

Know ourselves.

*

We look back and see ourselves

Pint-sized,

Starting out.

*

We look forward and see.....

But we cannot see.

*

There is a vague outline

Of what is to come;

A misty semblance

Of the colonnade's ending.

Is that a rock-face

Or is it a shining cloud

Beyond?

*

This is where we stand on the colonnade......

Here,

Now......

Let us stand and admire.....

But we have already moved on.

*

Other shadows,

Other flashes of glory

Await us.

Off we go!

*

More life/death symbolism here:

http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2009/07/symbolic-sky.html

See tomorrow's blog for the last letter of the Alphabet.