Crystalline Time

A thousand lights will pass around

fill the air without a sound

Which way will they spin again

with your preference or the wind's?

Spun we are unto the world

making life a vicious swirl.

Round we go and back again.

Lucky when we keep a friend.

So much to do, so little time.

Nowhere to go. Nowhere to hide

But skip a rock upon a cloud

watch the colors swirl around.

Then gather up the crystal parts

of fragile life and fragile hearts.

Internalize the wide procession

moving forwards. No regression.

Linear time will teach us all.

Dreamers left by quiet walls.

Only realists step ahead,

Acknowledging, we surely dread.

Yes linear time will lead the way,

march about our heads and stay,

pausing on a memory,

standing still when life's complete.

Completed colors in my head

every color that is shed

form complete this imagery.

Time is 'still'  ...in memory.