All desperate for comfort

Linked in circles of friends

Found with great or little effort

Bound with no ends

Linked circles of friends

Steel rope under tension

Bound with no ends

Flexible in eternal suspension

Steel rope under tension

Wandering for affections

Flexible in eternal suspension

People and connections

Clocks

(a villanelle)

Time, and endless race

Only slowed when addressed

Set at an ineffable pace

We forget to brace

For the laughter is missed

Time, an endless race

Age grows losing all grace

Not ever again kissed

Set at an ineffable pace

Lost, often in displace

Never returned when wished

Time, and endless race

The hands are traced

Once one departed

Set at an ineffable pace

It stares with a stone face

It’s flow endlessly measured

Time, an endless race

Set at an ineffable pace

Morgan Smith is a Christian woman determined to share her words with the world. She is pursuing a master's in library and information science. One day she plans to be known as a author.