"Time Is Leaving" are poems reflecting the passages of life that the author has experienced. They are celebrations of the people he knew and loved, they are observations of the beauty in this world, and the sadness he felt when death took them away. They are the individual's journey into the goodness, love and beauty of the world as he perceives it. From the poem "The Lenape" "It has ended for you my people, The deep silence spreads the ghosts Of your being into the soul of trees Who watched your journey from birth, Who loved you, birth after birth Into the beginning and endings of life."