Routine

21 August 2008, 11:37 AM
Inspired by 3WW.

We’ve settled in to this mundane
existence, marked by routine,
though not yet, perhaps never,
by habit. Nothing is taken for granted
here in Paradise, though we know
every leaf, every blade of grass,
every tear which falls or ever will.
If ever we are bored by the scenery,
we must remember
how beautiful, how rare is this
silence, this predictability,
a salve for wounds incurred
before we found quiet place
to sit, rest, fall into familiarity
and custom, one with the other.