This poem captures the vertigo I felt in the days leading up to my marriage. All of a sudden, I realized it was possible to grow older, to make decisions that would put me on a set path. I wrote this as a means to both accept the anxiety I felt and to convince myself that, though time was passing and urgency mounting, there would be time for me to become the writer I dreamed of becoming.

The final two lines are from T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," which is my origin poem--when I first read it, I knew I wanted to be a poet.