Words worth a day

What are words

but pictures

and pictures

but language

and language

but us

picturing the language

of words to make

us us again

*

If you look

long enough at a person

you will end up

seeing yourself

and if you look longer

you end up

seeing them

and if you look longest

of all

you end up

seeing me

and the rest of us

peppered behind and in front

like time

when there was time

to look

*

Accept every day

for that is all there is

until the last

that might leave little

to accept

for it does not last

a full day