Arlene Corwin writes

July Gone By…Focus August

July gone by, the focus August,

Time in cycles,

Every end a new succession -

This into eternity.

Before we focus on a doomsday,

As so many do,

Find out who you are,

-out, -in,

Omitting past and future,

They but sutures stitching your existence

To a present and a presence

That is younow or a nowyou.

Things end, come out of that;

Forms form out of their essence.

There is no apocalypse, so-called,

To end it all.

Just start, stop, start;

A dwindling or a violence.

The day was yesterday,

July gone by.

Today the focus August.

(Simple metaphor for time

Because it is a cute and simple rhyme)

But you know what I am

saying,

Playing with existence.

[The Leo zodiac sign lasts from 23 July to 22 August.]