In Due Time
My darling, why did you go
You won’t tell me under the moon
You won’t tell in the morning glow
And in the dim afternoon
Why must we deal with the time
Why can’t it leave us alone
I want us to live, but we die
There was a time, but its gone
Our space is reduced to an archive
Your garden is touched with decay
What do I know except still I’m alive
And you can’t be here today
So into dust we return
This perpetual law of the dust
Beckons our flesh to be burned
To feed the insatiable past
Memory serves but it fails
Time takes it back from a man
The wind fell asleep in my sails
I want to see you again
Silence is one stern reply
There'll be one more in due time
You know the answer, either do I
Together again we'll entwine.
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