Not Enough Time

I seek a balance of time in harmony with myself like skipping rocks across the incoming tide they all sink yet ripples move forward and the biggest splash is where I began My path builds from the first skip with held breath until the final tick-tock Split the hours to ransom away the clock I squirrel minutes to put inside my hour glass then happily turn it over as they begin to drop letting go of what cannot be kept Though sometimes regrets linger to haunt the air precious memories are lived and twirl by It’s not hard to choose you, why deny and among all of the excited voices raised what about all my this? Well, that’s all there is time can only give so much back With my heart in love with each day’s while surely, I can somehow do some more? But if you should go before we can cross a door I’ll keep the minutes safe inside my dreaming jar a whirlpool of next times that always grows I don’t want to surrender any to the air Instead, as days fill my calendar of desires in anticipation I’ll know you again