A NEW YEAR’S REMINDER TO TAPE TO MY CALENDAR- Max Reif

[Larry Robinson]

A NEW YEAR’S REMINDER
TO TAPE TO MY CALENDAR

Burn the old calendar,
put up the new!
(We humans must always
have something to do.)

The date moves on
to the next little box.
Time inches forward
on all the world’s clocks—

all Impermanence,
as Buddha said.
No sooner welcomed,
each moment is shred.

Life is a shell game,
played on the street
by a trickster who yawns
at the Spirit’s defeat

while the Unchanging One,
behind time and space,
patiently waits
to gift us with Grace.

	- Max Reif
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