Name: Enantiodromia
Duration: P00H01M07S
Description: A poem about aging, erosion, and questioning the concept of time.

Enantiodromia

from A Kootenay Flower in Foreign Soil by Erin J. Bauman the Panoptical Poet

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A poem about aging, erosion, and questioning the concept of time.

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I often have to think
about how old I am.
It seems
I am trying to forget
how many years
have passed me by,
like signs on a highway
that barely get the time to be read
before headlights
flash
over them
and they are gone.

Is time really relevant
in anymore than a perceptual capacity,
or does it run
like the river behind my house?
In a constant cycle
where motion is the only thing that matters.
Not where you’re going,
or how you get there;
just the simple fact
that you continually moved forward.

Like the river does,
I remain relatively the same, even in motion.
A few of my forehead lines cutting slightly deeper,
in the same way a current cuts a bank,
leaving the marks of moments
where it has passed.
But all of those lines
will eventually be washed away
with the remnants of my body, and with this river,
leaving only the flow of eternal energy,
that even enantiodromia cannot erode.

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from A Kootenay Flower in Foreign Soil, released November 27, 2021
Written and Read by: Erin J. Bauman, the Panoptical Poet

Recorded and Mastered by: Steve Marc/SMG Endeavors

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Erin J. Bauman the Panoptical Poet Castlegar, British Columbia

The Panoptical Poet is an environmental and social justice word warrior who ex-amines the many varying viewpoints of our current global reality.

Each poem Erin writes is an attempt at bringing to light the undervalued voices that are being silenced in the landscape of our collective conversations.

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