Life is lived in code

Unbreakable jumble of numbers 

Stretching from the past 

Disappearing into future 

Forever looking for the magic line

To unlock the  gate 

A dancing kaleidoscope flicking 

In and out of peripheral vision

A code that is outside my grasp

Impenetrable, below the water

Hidden in the depths

Below the rock, locked

A code that’s lost

Mislaid somewhere in youth

I had it once , clutched in my heart

But time has slowly eaten the edges

And now it’s lost

A shred left, incomplete 

Scattered down the years

Forever gone

But somehow within my grasp

The Code 

Memorised not written

Somewhere I have it

But it’s locked away 

Perhaps one day I’ll find it

Stumble on its secret 

Somewhere in the cobwebs 

 

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