Poem ~ kairos

Renata and me, summer 2022, just before she moved with her family to France and took my heart with her. We're sharing "nose bisous" wearing our matching stripes.

Allora ... last night I was guest on the Story U Radio Show/Podcast of my dear friend and Coach Debby Handrich, brava !! It was a fantastic experience !

Our episode was about Romancing Life ... something you may hear more about from me, including the link to the episode, when available. We had so much fun together for that hour that I couldn’t go to sleep afterward. We pre-recorded the episode at 12noon her time in Seattle, 9pm my time here in Gubbio, Italy.

Publishing one of my poems for the first time came from that episode’s inspiration, find it here.

This poem, kairos, goes along with that poem about Littleness, and is also about my little precious goddaughter Renata. One day we were playing with blocks and she told me it’s a 3! on one block. I told her that she was going to be 3, and to say that surprisingly startled me!

This poem, which has never seen the published page until now, helps to explain why.

I hope you love it as much as I do.

kairos    

it is said

that we live in

chronos time

and that we yearn for

kairos time

chronos keeps

a clock

a watch

an age

for all people places things

schedules

meeting points

starting points

end zones

all starts and finishes

just

lots of keeping track

of lots of stuff

kairos keeps

none of the above

so time is only

only

the precious

present moment

is that why

when I said

you’ll be 3

and I meant

chronos time

i was quite startled

what happened there

i wondered

until i remembered that

we live in kairos

you and me

other than naptime

and bedtime

our time is ours

and no wordly time really exists

unless we say so

i am ageless

when i’m with you

you are ageless

when you’re with me

remember

all of our littleness goes away

maybe all of our bigness goes away too

maybe, really

neither one of us will be 3