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By Verna Cole Mitchell
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Yardstick in hand,
Teaching you lessons,
Some learned once already,
You will have to learn
Over again.
Time is a dancer,
Whirling seconds,
Twirling minutes,
Swirling hours,
To unheard melodies
Through all your days.
Time is a nurse,
Pouring soothing balm
On grievous hurts
That cut clear through to your heart.
They cannot heal completely,
But she gently eases their pain.
Time is a playful child,
Skipping lightly away
When you want him
To stand still.
Try as you might,
You can never catch him.
Time is a soldier,
Marching ever onward,
Never listening
For your command to halt,
Nor pausing in his battle
To slow down or to rest.
Time is a thief,
Relentlessly stealing
Youth and strength,
Thoughts and plans,
Dreams and hopes,
Until, at last, your memories.
Time is a runner,
Beginning the race
At an even pace,
Then finally, with a second wind,
He sprints with a sudden burst
To reach the end.
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As I read your poem, it dawned on me that Time is, indeed, all of these things. Thanks, I will think of time a little differently now.
Enjoyed this, Verna, and the way you have fleshed out something so ghost-like, yet real. Loren