Numbered pages of a New Year’s Organizer
stare blank and stark, beckoning to be filled.
Chrysalis of mental energy separately set in perfect blocks,
meetings, lunches, parties, vacations wait for birthing into reality.
Penciled in are doctors’ visits, shopping trips, job interviews,
pending transformation into daily drama.
Weddings, baptisms, divorces and custody wars
scribbled amongst work-a-day scenes.
Those chancey twins, sickness and death, not known for
Scrupulous planning will, in time, serpentine into the record.
The world orders its life on pristine pages,
Harnessing time to its dreams.
Resolved to master the randomness of fate,
By cataloging its schemes.
G.Welch 28 Dec 90