You watch your children
And before you know it
They are adults
With children of their own
And time passes
You watch your parents
And before you know it
They need you to guide them safely
Into their own immortality
And time passes
You look at yourself in the mirror
At the unfairness of ageing
You wonder why life seems so insensitive
Because all you see is your own extinction
And time Passes
Your priorities seems to change over night
Your eyes are not seeing so well
And your body tends to ache
You try to ignore the truth
And time passes
You think back into the past
wondering why things are not what they seem
For time has taken your chances
To become what could now never be
And time passes
For reasons for living
Leaves you even more confused
In the fear of loosing your youth
As your mind searches in past reflections
And time passes
Then you loose perspective
In what your perspective was
For temptations over-ride
Good intentions have been forgotten
And time passes
Your mind fights to not think about it
Your body can not ignore it
Time reels out of control
As the body’s soul begs time for second chances
And time passes
Looking around you only find
That time had not forgotten
To take away your youthfulness
And it smiles as it takes away your life…
And time passes… and passes…and passes
…
Written by Katherine Kay Graven
September nine two-thousand five
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem