Too Late? poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer in typewriter font on handmade paper. This poem reminds us that it's never too late for forgiveness or love and sometimes the universe gives us something different than we imagined, but it's just as good or even better. <3
Too Late?
By the time we arrive at the cliffside
to watch the sunset, the darkness
has already come. But because
of the inkish sky, we see thousands
of yellow lights glitter across the harbor,
and moonlight on the water makes
the blackened surface shine. How often
do I think I’m too late, only to find I have
arrived at just the right moment,
the moment in which there is a beauty
beyond the one I knew to wish for?
Like how, when I thought it was too late
to forgive, forgiveness arrived with its
soft and generous hands. Like how, when
I thought I was too late to love, love
flowered like a sunset, radiant and blazing,
and stayed, the way sunsets never do.
Like how when I believed I was here
to adore the light, I came to learn how exquisite,
how lavish, how astonishing, the dark.
The words are printed in a typewriter font on handmade cotton rag paper. The color of the paper is a natural, unbleached white but may occasionally have tiny speckles of random color from other fibers mixed in. Size varies slightly because of the imperfect nature of handmade paper, but will be roughly 5" x 7", 8" x 10", or 11" x 14" based on your selection.
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer is a poet, teacher, speaker, writing facilitator, and poet laureate of Evermore. Her poems have appeared on A Prairie Home Companion, PBS News Hour, O Magazine, American Life in Poetry, Washington Post’s Book Club, and Carnegie Hall stage. Too Late can be found in her latest book of poems, The Wonderment (2026).
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