Line by Line

One more line
Another year

It used to move
So slow from here

Ten felt far
Thirty felt wide

There was enough
On every side

But the bars shift
Little by little

Quietly

Line by line
Year by year
Line by line
Still right here

Line by line
Year by year
Line by line
Still right here

Less left now
Than before

And somehow time
Moves faster more

The smaller part
Begins to run
Toward the hand
That holds the sum
Nothing wrong
With how it goes
That’s the way
It always flows

Line by line
Year by year
Line by line
Still right here

Line by line
Year by year
Line by line
Still right here

I don’t fear
Where it ends

I just see
How it bends

Line by line
Year by year
Line by line
Still right here

Line by line
Year by year
Line by line
Still right here