“This is the Watch
that was broken for you”..
Who forgot to partake of
the sacraments of Time
and found themselves
short of days?
“This is the Time
that was spent for you”..
Days they will never see again,
nor gather unto themselves
those ephemeral moments
spiralling beyond their grasp;
“This is the Watch
that was broken for you”..
And the body of the hours
now broken for them on a platter
so that they might never
have to break the hours again;
“This is the Time
that was spent for you”.
A delightful, subtle,contemplative narrative incorporating both a sense of regret and the acknowledgement of the end of Time,as we knew it.
Time that stands still and eats us all and time that dissolves- the thin line between -lovely!
This poem has a Biblical cadence to it with imagery that conjures up the liturgy and the ceremony of the Holy Sacrament
The ephemeral ,elusive nature of Time captured with few deft strokes.