Time

Thank You for this gift of time--

The days, the hours, minutes flying fast, so fast

And passing swift--

The ages run

The setting sun 

That once was bright as morning-day

And now the aching embers lie 

Almost asleep

They creep as if into the shadows 

Smouldering 

Beneath the ragged night

Its edges choking hold of me 

I grasp this gift of time 

It struggles underneath my fingers

Struggles' til 

I slowly let their creaking joints outfold

A flower in the autumn night

The light 

The last of embers light looks upward in the darkened sky 

And flies into the cooling mist 

The gift- 

The gift of time 

I let it go--relinquish all my dying hold 

And darkness falls

My eyes close dim

But in the giving I awake 

Into eternity.



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