Asylum of Time

Remnants of Art Therapy
in an Abandoned Asylum
Photo by Tom Kirsch
From opacity.us

late do the calendar pages
come quietly
peaceful in season
of soft shortened sun
that abbreviates days
time enough to look back
from this slower paced place
on the life of a year
on the noise of its speed
time enough to reflect
upon choices and judgments
behaviors and accidents
all of which led from
the bedlam to here

late do the calendar pages
come provident
safely removed from
the perilous paths
of that journey through
frenzied existence
now given its respite
its final arrangement of solace
the culminant chapter of time
colors fading to gray
all the senses less busy
no longer in want of excitement
content with their imminent
turn for the end