Father Time Has Fallen Poem by Butch Decatoria

Father, time has fallen
Away, leaving you
As your virility and strength do
Now, as your pallid skin
Is doing,
Falling away… in time.

Like your own words
Once resurrecting memoirs
Of the charmer
Extrovert you who
Once knew
Of yourself/ spoken words
The amorous youth you

Discarding all armor
Love the only weapon
A fearless wonder you
Invincible once again
As I listen then
To You remembering… you.

But time is simply cruel
My father
And silent lesson, you're
Great wisdom is mute
In the loudness
Of your mortal diminishment.

Oh how honest it tolls
A grip in all hearts. Truth.

Oh Father, time has only then and when
A sadness goes
As Far as the thunder's roll
Oh father, now in heaven
I have no doubt we'll meet again
In the light of zen
Everlasting. You.