Helen J Radford Poet Free verse

Time Traveller

You perforate my normality 
with snap-shots of the past. 
Images of yesteryear form 
a slide show which interjects, 
dove-tailing, sneaking in to 
the now with the stealth of 
the stealthiest fox. 

Distracted from the present 
my mind meanders down-stream, 
pausing at a bridge arched over now 
and then. Remembering when I was younger, 
carefree, flitting between hearts, 
scattering the lovelorn in my wake 
like sown seeds, lost, never harvested. 

Then flippancy of youth. The transience. 
Easy come easy go - 
before the burden of emotion takes its toll. 
My fickle fingers touched your heart - 
then dropped it, hot potato-like; 
craved for then petulantly discarded, 
out of fashion, gone, onto the next ..... 

Yet here you are merging then with now. 
You found me somehow, and I you. 
Back to the future.  Time travelled 
and catapulted into familiarity. 
The perforation of normality. 
Present in the present with the steel 
of the steeliest fox.

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