not just obsessed Poet Free verse

Check the time

At the drop of a hat,
just like that the calendar turns its last page, wearing thin. 
Yet again, it begins.
The town stays the same yet everything’s changed 
old hands start to wear new rings.
Years ago, you were born 
wardrobe’s been worn 
as one door closes, someone else walks in.
Yet again, it begins. 

The sun leaves the sky but in the blink of an eye
it’s there again and you’re left questioning why…
children leave the swings for other things 
and soon those children start to bare their own,
then face the world all alone. 

That new house that becomes a home 
with the back garden, now all overgrown
where you once slept, newly a teen 
before everything you now have seen
and yet this is no dream. 

That kid at school you knew so well 
hears the echoes of wedding bells
but before you know it, there comes the rain 
you watch them drift away in pain
and just like that, it starts all over again. 

As the day creeps slowly into night 
you clutch your pen with each word you write
but don’t forget to check the time 
before today falls out of your sight.

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