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               My Time

by Eve Adam, a.k.a. Harmonic Eve

Boxed in.
No place to go ---
Only where someone else
Chooses for me.
Why is my time
Wasted so?
I had plans.
I had hopes.
What's here for me now?
There is ONE hope,
One plan to pursue;
I'll fill my time with that.

Free at last!
There's so much to do!
No time for extras ---
Not even one which gave me solace
When I thought my time was being wasted.
The only comfort I was allowed
No longer fits my busy life.
The restriction I hated
Has proved a blessing.
Yes, I see now.
It was meant to be thus.
It was a time well spent.
by Eve Adam, a.k.a. Harmonic Eve
April 14, 2008

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April 15, 2008: I was thinking last night about how fortunate I was
that I had time to do something I enjoyed even when I was mostly
feeling quite restricted. So it was "a time well spent" after all,
despite the basic feeling of being "boxed in" then.
 
In the blank verse poem, there are nine lines of anguish, followed
by three lines of reflection and change of direction, followed by
nine more lines, this time, lines of freedom. However, the time of
freedom is minus the ONE consolation that appeared during the
time of anguish. That second set of nine lines is followed by three
more lines of reflection. There is the realization that there was
good mixed with the earlier not-so-good, and the first reflection
and change of direction from hopelessness to making the best
of the situation, was what made the conclusion possible, that it
WAS a "time well spent" after all.
Eve Adam, a.k.a. Harmonic Eve, April 15, 2008
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