The Blog of Speed
January has a way of arriving already in motion. There’s no easing into it, no soft landing after December. It opens with momentum, expectation, and the quiet assumption that you should already know what comes next. This January felt especially fast. Not busy, exactly. Just quick.
Like events happened before I had time to give them proper weight. So for this month, the theme felt obvious: Speed. According to Webster, speed is defined as “the rate at which something moves or operates.” But beyond the definition, speed is a feeling.
It’s that sensation of time slipping ahead while you’re still orienting yourself. It’s the realization that moments don’t ask permission before becoming memory. Two things marked this month for me. I turned 31. And I was let go from a job.
Neither moment arrived dramatically. There was no buildup, no soundtrack. Just a quiet shift in circumstance. And yet both carried the same underlying truth: time is moving, whether or not we feel ready for it to.
Birthdays compress years into a single day. They invite reflection, whether you ask for it or not. Thirty-one didn’t feel heavy, but it felt clear.
Clear in the way numbers sometimes are. A reminder that days stack quickly. That two months become two years without ceremony. That life doesn’t slow itself, so we can keep up. Losing a job does something similar. It forces an ending you didn’t schedule. One moment you’re spending time on something, investing energy, imagining continuation. The next, that time is gone. Not reassigned. Just complete. That tension between “too fast” and “too late” is where this month’s poem came from.
Poem of the Month
by me
Speed
Too fast. Too soon. Too late.
Too gone. To move on.
To spend time on.
Too much. Too vast.
Too complex.
Two days.
Two months.
Two years.
One life.
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