Time telescopes
Some events in your life suddenly snap into focus from a distance of decades past.
A thought, a smell, a taste
The alchemy of time
A cocktail of memory and invention.
Time fades
Ephemeral
Sepia toned
The pain will pass if you let it
But it can come back strong and in full color
Avert your gaze.
Time is fluid
Rushing past
At the speed of dark
Leaving sandy seconds in your hands
Slipping between your fingers
Quiet eddies and swift rapids
Go ahead
Make a plan
Hear God chuckle.
Time is a liar
Directing your gaze
To the past, the future
Anywhere but now
This moment the only
Real thing
Now it’s gone
Gone again
Again and again and again
Memories stacked in cords
Like wet firewood.
Time cannot control love
Because love lives
Outside the tyranny of time
Never dies
Doesn’t seem to age
Once formed
Love exists
It’s own thing
Eternal
Hot as a two dollar pistol
And yet icy and sharp.
Love
The enemy of time
I remember
But can’t recall
A trick of time
Memories hoarded
Precariously
Smooth stones in mountain streams
Might sit there forever
Might fall over in the next minute
Might not
Time will tell
But love keeps its mouth shut.
Time carved caves
In my chest
I filled them
With crystalline carvings of people
I love and loved
Plus the souls of dogs
And one cat.
Time
Can’t exist without music
The notes illuminate
The hidden rhythms
Designed to elude your grasp
Until a song
Paints a portrait
And hangs it where
You can find it later
With the aid of a strummed string
A blown horn
And the sweet voices
Straining against the world.
Time is steady
Until it isn’t
Warm until cold
Surprisingly illusive
It sometimes it just evaporates
Until a glance at a clock’s face
Reveals
Hours have passed
Without notice
Just gone.
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