Joe Hall
'Reflections in Time,' is a potpourri of compositions about life, reflecting on the complexity of humanity.It begins with me.standing in a room aloneWatching the torch of mother’s life fadeThen flicker.and finally extinguishWatching as time slips by.the past and future Forming two concentric rings, slowly spinning Witnessing this specterMother’s life now a vapor, thoughts flowed together Like the unceasing waves of the ocean Crashing upon the shore.I had an epiphany of sorts. I wrote, and as the words unfolded on page, A strange certainty awoke within meSuddenly from this gloom appeared A crystalline comprehension Of how to communicate in poetic form