Bookends

Another book to the shelf
and another one opened
time to write a new storyline

Another page in a novel

of recorded experience
with too many pages unsigned

Every word is a deal

in the currency of meanings
that feelings need to define

A new milestone or guidepost

each time I move on,
but what am I leaving behind?

As I try to make sense
of the world in my time,
with each volume for reflection

I write a new storyline...