An Axis of Rotation

As a second passes by

A molecule of a river is replaced.

As a day goes by

A number on a calendar changes.

As a season goes by

A different breeze goes through my sleeves.

As a year goes on

I change by an age.

I should have realized

You also change

By a second, a day, a season, a year.

They say time changes it all

But really it is the people living in it that change.

The time is not to blame.

Remember the days I was worrying

How time may challenge where our hearts shall bent

You were too confident to tell me

If there is a will there is a way.

You sounded too assured –

Yes, too secure.

The deep night sky spreads in front of me

But again, every second,

I’m seeing a different sky, another constellation.

Irresistibly, I simply stare.

A silent prayer wades through the night

Hoping to be a firm axis of rotation

That shall pin down on the earth with its graceful weight.