Tim(e) Traveler (New Poem)

 

Tim(e) Traveler
by Tim(e) Kavi

winding roads

lead to distant portals

that bend back

and forth

from future selves

to meandered

presently perceived

mistaken pasts

there are floundered

opportunities remiss

in the stranger's glance

that becomes destiny's kiss

stuck in a loop

I try but cannot change them

as my regrets seem

to be a walk 

across the abyss

the candles burn late

at night in the caves

that lead to uncertain

futures walked by sojourners

I have my caravans of hope

feeling the cave walls

with flashlights that become

lamps of meaning

that by myself 

I can no longer create

for there is only

the undisclosed Other

helping me 

to change my fate.

photo credit: Image by PIRO4D at Pixaby~~TK

In the Quantum New Year (new poem)

In the Quantum New Year
by Tim Kavi

the linear
exploding fading away
of time
years count for something
in creating meaning essence
of what we seek
to immortalize

but there is a timeline
of another kind
a place that seems
the geographic inspiration
of all seekers
if we could but glimpse
it's enduring surprise

for this is no Sisyphus
of disappointment
but a blinding step of faith
that beyond what is known
in the many ways to know
and choose from
is but destiny's disguise?

For some have traveled paths
less traveled, and some
many forking paths
that in the quantum
message of self defining hope
moments, each passing year
is a line we devise

only to discover
there is more richness
and happy places
that Heaven is timeless
if we but look for it
and stepped out of time
to merely recognize?

In the quantum new year
we know that time changes things
even outside it.