Monday, June 27, 2022

The New Song


For some time I thought there was time
 and that there would always be time
 for what I had a mind to do
 and what I could imagine
 going back to and finding it
 as I had found it the first time
 but by this time I do not know
 what I thought when I thought back then

 there is no time yet it grows less
 there is the sound of rain at night
 arriving unknown in the leaves
 once without before or after
 then I hear the thrush waking
 at daybreak singing the new song

--W.S. Merwin
photo by Cartier-Bresson