Lapses

I spend my idle moments rehearsing

the lapses of my life.

"Waste of energy!" you'll say,

and you'll get no argument from me.

I'm hoping it's a phase,

a trial to go through,

a step of the initiation rite

(occult, its ultimate purpose hidden from my heart).

It's not in my control,

the accounting of failures, omissions,

inglorious occasions.

I let the moments pass through me

knowing (hoping I'm right)

that these rehearsals will culminate,

after that fabled fullness of time,

in a raucous retelling

of the glorious joys and astounding beauties

of my days.

 

 

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