A STEADY GLOW

 

"A Steady Glow"Life’s tempo shifts—too fast, too slow,
Rare the moments when it feels just so.
In youth, I prayed for time to flow,
Crammed in tight spaces where it stood still, or barely crept. Now, it whirls past, a relentless sweep,
Faces blur before names can seep.
I’m tugged away, no time to keep,
A thread, a bond, a memory deep. I seek a constant, a steady glow,
Someone near, through ebb and flow,
Unchanging in the ways I know,
A presence to anchor this restless show. Perhaps they’d shift the pace somehow,
To a rhythm I could hold, allow
My heart to settle, to adjust, to grow.
Yet I know it’s much to ask, too vast a vow. It’s unfair, selfish, to burden one so,
And so I don’t—I let it go.
Still, I dream of volunteers, a gentle row,
To walk beside me, through this shifting scope.