MORE TIME

All photos here are mine. I am very grateful to Caro Cougill for her time, creativity and technical abilities in putting them into this collage for me.

All my life, I have found

I just needed more time…
— more time to understand
— more time to process
— more time to be with you.

I just needed more time…
— more time to learn
— more time to sit
— more time to see.

It doesn’t mean I’m slow
It doesn’t mean I’m unintelligent
It doesn’t mean I can’t
It simply means I needed more time to be.

I just needed more time…
— more time for that transition
— more time to hold that into a memory
— more time in that place.

I just needed more time…
— more time for that embrace
— more time to let go of that pain… again and again
— more time to soak in that sunset.

I am an infant; I am a child; I am a teen;
I am a woman; I am a man; I am they;
I am old; I am young; I am in between.
Oh, please let me be who I am
— with just a little more time.

More time…
— to finish my work
— to find my work
— to know my thoughts
— and to make sense of my feelings.
More time…
— to muster my courage
— to speak my voice
— to heal my hurts
— and to learn from my mistakes.
More time…
— to be curious
— to explore
— to create
— and to sit with and in wonder and awe.

Just a little more time to be
and to be me
and to be with you.