only the waves

i never
i never expected
i never expected there would be so much time.

time for interest to collect, and for interests to collect, and
time to be collected with my interests.

time for long silences while making love.
 
time to wear my hands down, and to build them back up,
     and to grow calluses to the fit of my tools.

time for so many phrases to fall onto my neurons and form
     impressions, then footprints, then paths.

time for taste buds to grow, bloom, and wilt.

time even for time to speed up and for there still to be so much
time left.

who 
who could have ever expected
who could have ever expected there to be so much time?