How Time Can Fly So Swiftly Poem by RIC BASTASA

time flies swiftly
much faster than the fastest wings of
your mentally concocted
bird

because you love

you love everything
what you do
what you are
what you want to become

you are in love with yourself
with the world
with every face that you see

when you left you were just a child
who cannot say any word

it was just like a click of a finger
a blink of an eye

when we meet
we understand what happened then

the graves are ready
the grasses sing

we laid everything rested
we regret nothing

because we love everything that came and
went
we embraced what is here
and what passed away

with so much love
with so much affection.