The Things That Time Has Stolen From Me Poem by Patti Masterman

The things that time has stolen from me,
A sad, long list of everything I loved;
The very stuff, defined me in this life-
In falling rivulets, perhaps still it moves..

Disappears, but to reappear elsewhere
In other worlds, where other selves need it more
In living other lives, that none could guess;
It enters in secret, through other hidden doors..

Somewhere, in countless other worlds, now live
Those things that here have gone from me,
For time flows both forwards and backwards,
And all of time in succession, gives..