A Prophecy

A Prophecy

It has been said
there is a time
for everything.

Of course.

There are
shelves to be
built and
weeds to be
pulled and
checkbooks to be
balanced.

PTA meetings and
Girl Scouts and
family reunions.

But let me be
a prophet
and say
this:

There will
be a time
to sit and
weave a
daydream
and
Just Say No
to the
guilt of
Time Management
schemes;

a time
to pull out
that journal
you’ve been
squeezing in
between
dental appointments;

a time to
Just Say Yes
to shedding
your Persona of
the Practical

and slipping
into the
Persona of
The Painter
or the
Pie-In-the-Sky
Poet
or the
Priest of
the Divinity
of all
Creatures.

Who knows?
You may find
this to be the
most practical thing
you’ve ever done.

If you like “A Prophecy,” you may like seeing my poetry books, more poems, and some fiction at stevegillard.com.