Immerse Yourself
Rethinking Time
by Mark Nepo
You can’t hoard moments like coins.
You can only enter them.
You can’t trim hours like wood or glass.
You can only bathe in them.
You can’t add days like a drop of God
to every godless drink.
You can only immerse yourself
in the river that won’t stop carrying us.
Begrudge time and it will skip over you.
But enter, bathe, kiss, and bow. Immerse
yourself in the time you have and time
will carry you through the eye
of its needle into all that is.