(NOW)

By earth - time 
there is no now -
always gone before the word is finished

God owns the only now
where nothing ends
but remains written
as it has been written
and only creation needs a beginning

after all the ticking stops
and time steadies itself
from the dizziness of counting

I, having been, (no matter who knows
or doesn't know)
will be written in the now of God

			Lucille Murphy