the way of all

mortality

Sep 29

singing in another celebration

of life tomorrow, another friend

gone ‘the way of all flesh’

another life that reminds me

of the finite quality of my own

the concept of time seems local

to me, but within my un-vast

world, i had a beginning

and will have an end

perhaps then i will understand

what ‘i’ have been

Author of the Nandria Series, MaryJane is a retired family practice physician who grew up in the Midwest but now lives in the Pacific Northwest.

needle pliers