Ol' Timers unquote

In the cafes where old men
sit, sip and soliloquise,
as distant memories
smoke and swirl in clouded eyes;
with a sudden bated breath, is revealed
the heady forgetfulness of younger days,
time hath simply not healed.

Time Bound

I knew you ages ago...

so what?

it was another you and another me.

Time has corrupted us both,

we are not what we used to be..or see.

But if something did abide,

neither of us will be able to hide -

when we meet again, if we meet again

...what we held deep inside.

Rhetoric

You agree
or deny,
in a careful play
of planned nods and shakes;
as we talk eye to eye.

The monument,
built with words filled with sound
crashes loudly,
as you turn around.

Chronos

As you tease
ghostly strips of memories,
silently flicker and fade
across the canopy of my mind.

I strain to stretch the moment,
grasp the tide;
i smell but a faint fragrance,
as you again run and hide.

Alter Egos

Questions, suggestions,
that probe and haunt;
emotional subterfuge,
that we unabashedly flaunt;
Call it virtue,
or even restraint;
the same thing makes one a sinner
and another, a saint.

Timewatch

No before, no after,

so caught up in the now;

one more reflection in the glass,

this moment too, shall come to pass.

How

How can one
see through
a mirror than can only reflect?

How does one capture light
on a surface
that can only deflect?