ACCELERATED  NOW      

   
    
       these late    
november days    
       so swiftly    
slip away    
       like half dreamt    
dreams    
       of waking    
daydreams    
       on the sly    
where transpired    
       hours    
slide off    
       the clock    
as days drop off    
       my calendar    
faster than    
       fall s trees    
can release and      
       drop their leaves    
even as fall    
       moves on    
i wonder    
       if its only    
the nature    
       of this season    
with winter s
       shorter  colder
days still yet
       to come and all    
or only the gradual      
       stealthy treason    
of my increasing age    
       as each year    
i get older    
       it seems the days    
weeks  and months
      and years
now all pass    
       so much more
quickly by    
       than each prior    
year before    
       yet nothing    
that i do    
       ever seems to    
slow them down    
       sufficiently
enough
       though now
today    
       while sitting here    
ive come
       to finally realize    
it s futile
       to resist    
the only way    
       to stay in sync    
to stay in step    
       with life s rich
dance s journey here    
       is simply to    
surrender      
       and release    
any resistance
       i may still yet
have inside
       along with my    
weakened      
       clinging grip    
from the erratic    
       rushed and hurried    
unnatural spell      
       of man made    
time s  ever  
       increasingly    
accelerating 
       resistance
and denial
       of having
any sense
       at all
of living only
       in and for
this eternal
       moment s
constant state
       of
now