Time
By E.C.
Time is truly not my friend.
Daily it seems to taunt me,
Telling me it will never end.
Time is holding a grudge against me
keeping me away from you.
Multiplying my dark days
which sometimes makes me blue.
This battle that time is now waging against me,
It is really doing all it can
to prevent me from being free.
Sometimes I lay here wondering
if time is just trying to keep you for itself.
Because it knows deep in my heart that I need no woman else.
Now it seems like time and I,
is in a competition.
To see who at the end wins your love and devotion.
But not even father time is gonna keep me away from you.
Some day it will relent and set me free
for us to start anew.
For me to gaze daily in your beautiful face,
as I try to make up the best I can all the time that I waste.
When the days of my imaginings truly come to an end,
as I wrap you in my arms
my lovely beautiful friend.
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