The butterfly counts

§ Thirteen // Rabindranath Tagore

The butterfly counts
not months but moments,
and has time enough.

— Rabindranath Tagore

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Furbelow

This stanza is from the poem “On Time” by Rabindranath Tagore. I’ve been lately finding a little peace just trying to be present, try the things I want to try, make the things I want to make knowing that time — whether we’re being existential about it, or we just acknowledge that something distracting and diverting is bound to come up — is short.