November 2018

Time is time, luminous always and on time

Walks leisure, submits to history sublime

Subjective influence reveals a daily conclude

Destination’s finality is again time un-ruled

Victory’s hidden example a timely minute

Another loss passage, to worry’s ferment

Delegates calculated unveiling, spy’s reprise

Meaningful understanding lethargic demise

Boiled preambles unto a theater staging

Character’s exchange, aggressive wavering

Preened fraudulence inside shadowed peak

Evidence conclusion, affront mental seek

Slides inviting adventure, jovial consequence

Clouds darken inevitability and iffy bequest

Yonder lies the ridiculous foundation of truth

Pressurized segments inside a lifetime recluse

Redundant happenstance rolling through sleepy

Careful flagrance revealed within aged creepy

Disturbed silence repealed under elected crew

Misery’s continued abomination of selected few

Written By Raymond J. McCarter, Sr. Copyright 11-9-2018. All rights reserved.

Winters changing facade of indefinite resolve

Mine blinded collide, unto optics visual remiss

A whitewashed connection in black and opaque

Tethered reminders conjure the shrouded past

Tomorrows barred connectivity a long activism

Reasoned participation, a renewed adventure

Wielded sacrifice, the thunder's echoing sound

Fueled preamble, running the gamblers fortune

White's shadow fading in today's borrowed allow

Secrecies biased underscore, a tethered remind

Daily's tokened reminder, another biased review

Holiday's confused misdirection covers actuality

Within melting's conclusion we divulge presence

Theater's continued rehearsal, fall unto shutdown

Yesterday's following, run wearily to acceptances

Tomorrow's blended eying is lost to wonderment

Shrouded beginnings are filtered in the anoint

Our sacredly announced demeanor, within trivial

We of a winded denial, through voyeurs retrieve

Stolen passages unfold to actualities long reviewing

Written By Raymond J. McCarter, Sr. Copyright 11-28-2018. All rights reserved.

Take some time to live and breath ... maybe even think

Have you ever really lived at all ... a decade, year, or just a blink

Did you capture all the things you wanted to

Can you stand up and be counted as one of the lucky few

When life tossed you it's awesome curve

Will the record state that you possessed enough nerve

Can you honestly say that things went the way you planned

Have you really lived and do you still have room to expand

The things that made you happy and sad

Was it your doing or just someone else's fad

Are you fully aware of what it is you really need

If life had no other offers would you take a swing or run with God's speed

Have you ever really lived by every definition of the word

Soared high among the clouds, flying free like the birds

From your birth to the present day

have you made all the right moves

knew exactly the right words to say

Have you regretted not making a serious choice

let others determine your direction

because your opinion you failed to voice

Can there be an answer to this age old question

or is it up to luck of fate to preside over what's destined

Have you ever really lived, do you even have a clue

I mean really savored every moment really thought it through and through

Accounted for all the seconds and understood each passage read

Or are you just a mental note in some greater beings head

Have you ever really lived and yes, we'll have to take your word

So write down everything you said and all of what you heard

I asked you again, have you really lived? 

And do you promise to tell the truth

Everything is recorded in the book you know

in case there's a need for future proof.

McCarter, R. J. (2003) Timely Minutes. pp. 115-117. Copyright 2003. All Rights Reserved.