A moment in time did happen once.

                It was there and then it was no more!

Like a fickle wind that took a chance,

                To raise a head, but was gone before!

 

I would mull often in vacant times.

                If such a moment did occur awhile!

Or was it something without rhymes,

                As in the whimsies of a juvenile!

 

As ephemeral as the morning dew -

                It vanished quickly without a trace.

And the only thing that I could do,

                Was track along thru' empty space.

 

Like grains of sand in an hourglass,

                Which perforce do trickle below -

And always counting as they pass,

                The memories in their endless flow!