Thursday, October 31, 2024

Time is on my side Aug 29, 2012

 



I am grateful that the worst is over

 and the last apparent parting shot

 in a summer in which I have felt

 like a punching bag

a nagging bother

who is clever and elusive

she is struggling with

the concept of time

when I subscribe to the rolling Stone theory

 time is on my side

 meaning the more distance

between The heat of Summer

and the more welcome the cool rains

will feel when fall arrives perhaps

 it is all over

I am forgotten and I see only smoke

where there was no fire

time too valuable to waste

and that we can help but waste it

soothing the wounds

we can’t get to heal any other way

I kept thinking this time next year

 she will have forgotten me entirely

 though I won’t forget her

 you never forget the tornado

that hits your house with you inside it

or the amazing yet as it turns out pretty careless kiss

 behind the darkness

and the long walk through her life

she later condemned me for

all part of time’s passing

all leaving landmarks even time won't erase


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