Before He Comes We Weigh the Time!
poem 834
Before He Comes We Weigh the Time! - meaning Summary
Anticipation and Ensuing Emptiness
The poem considers the experience of waiting for a significant person whose imminent arrival makes time feel alternately heavy and light. Anticipation distorts perception: moments are measured, laden with expectation, until the person leaves. After departure, the dominant feeling is an emptiness that overrides earlier contrasts. The brief lyric compresses a cycle of hope and loss, showing how presence and absence reshape how time is felt.
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