But Time Came To Your Side, Saying, Now I Insist

But Time Came To Your Side, Saying, Now I Insist Fate, know this far deeper thought- stay alive I must For one shallow day, die I become bone and dust Silent, so calmly asleep, turn I into stone Beneath green pastures, weeping I for her alone As fleeing winds, moan when hearing my futile cries I that so deeply weep, beneath Nature's blue skies. Fate, know this- your awesome powers, I did resist. But Time came to your side, saying --now I insist. Robert J. Lindley, 4-21-2022 Rhyme