How to Love the World
i wrote this for you
how do you do the passing of time?
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how do you do the passing of time?

a poem and a prompt
𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙽𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚐𝚒𝚌 𝚃𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚎 𝙾𝚏 by Annie Wood - mixed media oil on paper - for sale

i’m watching you catwalking my applause and i’m

smitten

by the reminder

you’re me thirty years ago

how can i even have a thirty years ago?

it’s impossible

time

it’s too trippy to be real

it’s a Wes Anderson fever dream

time

your mischievous grin both excites and angers me

i invented that fucking grin!

time

dammit

it’s your turn, isn’t it?

already?

no, no, no, i want more, more, more!

because i kept my wants

i can

grasp for your disco ball rhinestones

i can

taste your shiny leather boots

i can

learn what makes you now

and then i can be it too

your sparks are not shadows of my longing

only a memory

you ask me, aren’t you having fun?

and i want to tell you i am the fun!

i am the one

i want to tell you

i am not your experience

i am not your piece of wisdom

i am not, god forbid, your sampling of maturity

i am you

only then

not now

and now, this now, this now is for you

dammit

i’m not prepared for this

i body roll into 1995 and now my grin matches yours

and my Gen X meets your Gen Z

and then, then, then, then

we are through

we go back in

time

time

time

and i won’t ask the Gods, “where does it go?”

it just

g o e s


A Question Prompt for you:

Do you feel time is zooming by or moving at fine pace? What are some changes you’ve noticed as you get older and how do you feel about those changes?

Write or think on this:

In what ways are you better now that you’re older than you were yesterday?

You can share your thoughts with me in the comments here:

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How to Love the World
i wrote this for you
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xo, annie
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