Helen J Radford Poet Free verse

Time Passes

I've travelled some distance now. 
Left you behind somehow, nestling 
in the newspapers which wrapped the glasses. 

Time passes 


Memories in a box and stored in the loft 
with the duplicate bits and pieces 
we didn't want or need. No need. 

Time passes 

Sometimes the past nudges the present, 
but we ignore it; turn our backs.  No relapse. 
Grasping second chances. No backward glances. 

Time passes 

We journey on, smiling, laughing, 
disregarding the occasional 'what if?', an 
aperitif to a future without repeated mistakes. 

As time passes 

we ditch the stuff that history is made of 
and pack only for the future; 
its perforation into the now not needed. 

Time has past. Let us toast what will be.

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Sharon Winter June 13, 2009 at 3:54 PM Wow. Especially love the next to last verse. Wise decision in the end. After all, the future is all we have left and what we make of it, as we have lived and learned. Awesome write. Love, Shar