Trailing Behind Poem by Kurt Philip Behm

Those footsteps ahead
are now footsteps behind

The past but a memory
the future declines

My cadence is slowing
my direction unclear

When frozen in place
on the wind I can hear

Quiet footsteps ahead
louder footsteps behind

Their sound fast approaching
to reclaim and remind

The years stay unpromised
except for the end

Each step left unwalked
trailing closer—portends

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February,2019)