Promptly Poetry

Acceleration

Acceleration

They say that time speeds up with age
and, when we’re close to an allotted span,
the years are swift and barely remembered,
as though we ride a runaway train
with throttle stuck and speed increasing,
decades flashing by in streamlined haste,
memories compressed to wafer thin,
bright instants of sudden understanding,
momentary islands in the general stream
of lives hurrying to a destination unknown,
and up ahead looms the final station,
last stop on the experiential line,
the period to the ultimate sentence
of the last chapter in this life's story.

They also say that it’s a journey,
that there’s more in the movement
than the indeterminate goal and so,
without regard for what lies beyond,
just sit back and enjoy the ride.


Line Count: 19
Free Verse
For Promptly Poetry, Week 25
Prompt: Include these words in your poem: chapter, time, regard.