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"Paradox" as featured in the now available, "A Memory Road"

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The poem, Paradox, featured in the book, A Memory Road, now available at lulu.com

Paradox


By the time you read this,
I will have already finished it.
So -- am I a time traveller,
a medium through time and
space, talking to a future
participant over distance,
not traversed by my own
two feet, seen through eyes
not of my own, feeling
emotions not conjured by my
own mind -- Or, am I simply
enjoying the paradox?

by Jacob Donley

© Jacob Donley 2012
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