The Toll

I lived inside my timeframe,
  did you live inside of yours

I lived outside my timeframe,
  did you live outside of yours

“I carried things from now till then,
  a toll I humbly paid

Across a bridge where time had stopped,
 —the truth to pass each way”

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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