Advice for Sara

Life is much longer measured in heartbeats;
a loving touch stretching between systole and dyastole
landing in silence
only the echo of pulse.
A million opportunities to lengthen experience.
The quiet momentum of 45 murmurs
in the carefully combed zen garden,
shorter than the 95 at love's approach
when motion falters at full breath,
waiting to exhale.
It is the only time that matters.

-J.D.T. Saul

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