Fleeting.

Beyond value of riches
It comes but once 
And then only for a moment
Once it has passed
It can never come again
Lost…
Leaving behind its shadow
Instantly diminished
Dim memory’s legacy
Moving unnoticed
A perpetual constant
Eternal…

TIME
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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