Kurt Philip Behm

The Present Looms

Time is speeding out of control

 as life is slowing down

 

The minutes of my memory

 lost hours going round

 

My eyelids close, the past on fire

 last vestige still to find

 

One image flashes bright and clear

 all darkness cast behind

 

The calendar in ruins

 this moment left in charge

 

The future marching backwards

 —the present looming large

 

(Burlington, North Carolina: April, 2018)