The Time of My Life

Geoffrey Heptonstall

Dying, I lose all sense of time,

being one with the universe

until my eyes open in suffering.

The pain recedes, leaving me young again,

but not as young as I become

when as a child I play,

finding innocence by degrees

on my journey to the womb.

Before that there is love

gaining on me all the time.

Geoffrey Heptonstall

Geoffrey Heptonstall has made a number of contributions to LPB . His fourth collection of poetry, A Whispering, was published by Cyberwit June 2023. His first collection, The Rites of Paradise, received critical acclaim when first published in 2020. Sappho’s Moon and The Wicken Bird followed. A novel, Heaven’s Invention, was published by Black Wolf in 2016. The Queen of Alsatia, a novella, was published in Pennsylvania Literary Journal in 2023. A number of plays and monologues have been staged, broadcast and/or published. He is also a prolific short fiction writer, essayist and reviewer. He lives in Cambridge.

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