Time

A Reflection on Human Frailty

 

Secrets can not be hidden

Souls are laid bare

No voice to reveal

Lives that were once there

 

Memories fade in an instance

One breath in time

Ever watching and waiting

For that end of the line

 

Struggling with the knowledge

Frailty that cannot be undone

Never ending succession

With no means to be won

 

Acceptance the only key

To keep the sanity of the mind

Each in their own way

Deciding what is divine

 

Time the silent killer

Its calculation no one knows

Patient and never ending

One final last rose

 

Fading in, Fading out

Waiting for the last breath

Sands dropping, then dripping

Ushering all unto death