At Last And Yet Too Soon

At last and yet too soon

Simultaneous opposites

Simultaneously true

The energy between the poles

Illuminates the view

The tension pulling me both ways

suggesting something new

At last and yet too soon

Stretch the bands of energy

between the sun and moon

When the contradictions held

Don’t contradict the truth

The tension is an energy

Creating something new

Doesn’t everything die

at last, and yet too soon?

I’ve got one wild and precious life

what am I s’posed to do?

I reach for life… I grasp it

at last and yet too soon

life writes my prosaic lyric

Mystery writes the tune

At last and yet too soon

Nothing so much as paradox

Gets closest to the truth

I feel it when I say to you

It comes to pass At last and yet too soon