Everything For Now Comments

Reading your POET'S NOTES about this poem changed everything for me. I immediately forgot what I was going to write in response because the knowledge that the person addressed is dying made my first thoughts irrelevant. I read the poem again and a shadow passed over my reading. The title says so much. I thought it meant impatience but it really means necessity, because all that is left for him is NOW. How to cram a life of experience into the remaining time? And how does looming death alter desire? I don't know how you could write this poem but it's very good you did. Silence would simply mean things are already over. Your advice to WALK DOWN A DIFFERENT LANE and DON'T FORGET TO LOVE is the best.