THE PHILOSOPHY OF CLOUD

On my walk this morning a tiny cloud caught my eye

And I found myself stopping to watch it on its trip across the sky.

 

It seemed a little shaky at first…not much movement there at all…

until, encouraged by a breeze, that cloud began to crawl.

 

As it moved it started changing…I suppose that’s what clouds do.

And as it changed that tiny cloud…grew…and grew…and grew.

 

In what seemed like but a moment that cloud was fully grown

And I saw it glide across the sky…floating on its own.

 

Then, as quickly as it all began…sooner than expected I must say

I watched what was once a tiny cloud…quietly float away.

 

This is the way time works I sighed as I calmly watched it go…

For it was not the same cloud I had discovered a moment ago…

 

Yes this is the way time works I smiled as the sun began to glow

Knowing I was not the same man I was a moment ago.

 

Knowing how time can quickly change a tiny cloud on its trip across the sky…

 

Knowing an entire lifetime can seem to pass in the twinkling of an eye.


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