In the Blink of An Eye
How can you stop time?
The precious moments past and passing.
The wreathed faces of so many friends.
Snap shots, jogs to the imminent fog of age.
Can you stop time? Should you try,
so many pictures so little eye.
Will not the gentleness of time,
embellish with sweetness, mute like wine,
the twinkle in a deep chocolate gaze,
the John Wayne, macho man, of another’s ways?
Do I even want to share, to freeze
their countenances with greed?
To perform the SO human deed
to place their bubbling souls,
giggles from the mouths of babes
upon something as soulless, as cellulose?
Copyright © Debbie Guzzi | Year Posted 2009
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