Time’s Treason

Since my birth I’ve been finding time

Losing it with every find

Many years now past my prime

And in its wrap I lay twined

Between its arms, the time’s blurred

It rocks the cradle of history

The second arm really its third

And all quizzed over its mystery


Silent and stealthy in its stride

But makes a sound every hour

Make believe the folks that side

It is housed in the Big Ben tower


In leisure new air I don and fawn

And watch time play angel and elf

Think of times I had and gone

While time from me steals itself

Motorcade of memories dull and sublime

Uncried tears that couldn’t spill

Thwarted gravity and twist of time

While times thievery went on at will


In corridors of time tomorrow

I hope a nuance you’ll find

In sifting through another’s sorrow

Maybe time to you wasn’t unkind