Sentinel

It may be so late in the day.
You may think that nothing will come.
Still you watch. Because that is what sentinels do.
So what if neither danger nor satisfaction approaches.
So what if you feel irretrievably small.
Have you ever been separate?
Can you ever be separated?
What delight! What a trial!
To keep watch in this uncertain world.

26 September 2026
Texas Jim
Prospect, Nova Scotia