Time My Enemy

Time has become my greatest enemy It drags on, an infernal grating on the nerve Like a broken muffler, dragging around the curve While my love and I starve for each other’s company Until time surrenders, I wait my love with baited breath Watching time, which I have confounded for going by so slowly For that hour, that minute, that second, when you will be mine only When I shall pledge my love to you forever, until death For: Barbara Gorelick’s contest Once Upon A “Time”