Line Gauthier Poet Free verse

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Complicated

we fritter it away 
we play with time
as if it were a toy

when deep inside
we really
do know better

each passing day
a forlorn longing
for what could have been



Published in my 24-page photo/anthology book ~THE TIME WE ARE GIVEN~ 2023

AP: Honorable Mention 2021

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Delice Arleen Skelly August 24, 2021 at 10:21 AM Line, so true we do fritter away time, it's only later in life we realise how fleeting time really is.....Delice

L Milton Hankins August 24, 2021 at 8:49 AM So true, Line. I loved your tercets. They are so descriptive of what goes on inside our minds.