Time

He measures out
his days
thoughts
words
feet by feet
yard by yard
inch by inch.

A measurable measured life
reasoned, reticent, rather dull.

She was ready
for the future
raring to go
with life.

But her haunted gaze arrests,
chained in rusty rage and misery.

Man overpowers Nature.

In the seething silence
her wildness struggles against
his time and worldly order;
But she lives in her future.