Time Past

[TIME PAST Has time past when my hair has turned grey When my pastel blue eyes have dimed. Has time past when those legs that ran up mountains, now will only take a step or two. Has time past when my mind so sharp could remember, the name of each and every plant. Now I can only look at them with a smile. Has time past when my back so strong carried children, and then grandchildren. Will now ach when i rise or when i sit. Has time past when my memories are the things I look forward to. Where I last longer in them, the past, than the present. Has time past when my young body would do cartwheels and star jumps. Now just tumbles is all that is left, Has time past when the dreams were of a future together, a bright new land. Now together is only one, and the land has been passed on. Has time past when the family could be heard singing and laughing. Now there is silence and stillness. For the family have family of their own. Has time past when I use to race to get out of bed, to see the morning sun, to drink in all the fullness of the day. Now I stay in a dimmed room and hear the clock, as time it ticks, ticks away. Night gives way to day, which gives way to night. Has time past that the heart that beat so loud, when you came into my life. Now rests it long, long pumping life. Has time past when I sit back in the chair and smile at all of my days, but wishes to be with you again. Now time has past that i close my eyes and draw my last breath. Finally I’m home, home with you. Time past.]