April 19, 2015
Tunxis Associate Professor Dr. Terry Cassidy’s works have been featured in the national publication of the Two-Year College English Association (TYCA) and a variety of other venues. He has also been honored by the Board of Regents of the 17-school Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) system for excellence in teaching. It is now HiA’s honor to publish his poetry.
When It Is Time
If you are one of the lucky ones, you will know when it is time. Something inside your bones, your sinew will make it clear there is little of you left. You drift away from conversations or from books and music that used to enchant you, preferring calm to the turmoil of a lively novel or the passion of a beautifully rendered sonata.
You won’t have much room in your heart any longer for “lively” or “passion”. They just won’t be that interesting anymore. Embracing profound silence will be your goal, unless there is pain, chilling or hellishly hot, always loud. Pain is the problem, the fearsome, loathsome guest that, uninvited, may choose to take up residence within you… Or not. It just depends.
Not Even Nothing
At the end of it all, she didn’t care that it changed. It was so sudden – not exactly light to dark, but definitely neither one nor the other.
She might have heard voices a heartbeat before the light changed. Edgy, vaguely familiar but no matter.
No light of any sort No dark either, no time, no pain, no thought, no sound,
not even quiet, Not even nothing
Physics, Bard, and Dr. Skiff
Let’s call it heuristics, why don’t we? Or maybe we’ll make up a story, careful not to press it too tight so it will seem to hold out at least for the people who wish it to. It’s more than a game of love or isolation or despair, but eventually some sort of science will emerge, principles, not laws, somehow.
Photo Copyright © 1889 Vincent van Gogh [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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