Marking Time

A Poem by Pete

“Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.” - Thoreau

time force marches me

i step to its cruel cadence

what's it done for me

© 2024 Pete

Author's Note

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." - Thoreau

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Added on October 7, 2024
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Author

Pete

Boston, MA

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I love reading, writing, music, nature, God and feeling emotion, not necessarily in that order. To me, these things go hand in hand. My favorite writer is Henry David Thoreau. I think he was a geni.. more..