Missing the Pause

 

…Miles to go before I sleep

the days merging

into fast forward 

with very little Pause

 

Pause to be still

Pause for silence

Pause to breathe

 

Today I relish the chance of living in the 

Pause—

For how many unknown miles to go before I sleep

Graced with an Awakening

to the Pause

The text for “miles to go before I sleep”

Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1923, © 1969 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc., renewed 1951, by Robert Frost. Reprinted with the permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC