Time, time, time is our troubling element

Fantasy met sci-fi as Red hid under the bed

Carried aloft my tongue turned in the rain

As hope plummeted like an anchor

Praying for an endless winter of love

Step between raindrops falling in a paper cup,

Rewriting the tea leaves

Turning both of their kisses into a freezing moment

Before she turned away and gone

Isolation from failed protection of my childhood,

The window once closed, now open, and I am free,

In the sun, insecurity diced and dead.

 

Drowning in time, hidden, safe as death

The girl in the topaz dress looked through the window

And her loneliness crashed in a silver of shards

Oblivious breath, eaten cake, crumbs old but edited

At 35,000 feet Amber felt time tread through treacle

Marriage, time, cats and mice, giants and death.

 

The unexploded bombs from time stymied by Neanderthals

You say anthromorphosize, I say personify

I see the time ablaze in words.