Like There's No Tomorrow

By Justine C. Tajonera

You've heard it before:
do things like
there's no
tomorrow.

It sounds trite,
over-used.

But what if there
really isn't any
tomorrow?

As you hurtle towards
the sun,
and dance in the air,
dangling in space,
tied to the core
of rock
with the weak strings
of gravity

ask yourself
if there really
is a
tomorrow.

The revolutions
of the earth
and the constant aging
of your cells
have a claim
on your body.

But what animates
your bones,
belongs to an order
that cannot
disappear:

cannot be created,
cannot be destroyed.

And for such elements
of the eternal,
there is no such thing
as time.

(Dec. 14, 2009)

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