If only Time

I take from Albert Einstein who wrote:

People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

In other words;

Time: A stubbornly persistent illusion.

"If Only We Could Be Strangers Again."

(From the film: Collateral Beauty)

When we were lonely

Longing for love

Time passed slowly

And death found reality

We saw little opportunity

Like sand 

Sifting in an hourglass

Of illusion.

Then we met

When we were strangers

Never again

And the world turned quickly

Death merely sand 

In an empty hourglass 

of illusion.

If only we could be strangers again

Feeling warmth, and a tremble

As two hearts learning to love once more

While time passed so quickly

Death merely sand

In empty hourglass

Of illusion.

But today is a new day

A gift that time provides

Love abides 

In collateral beauty

As death recedes

Like sand

Sifting through an hourglass

Of illusion.

D.A. Wittler 6/3/21

In Memoriam

04:30:

In Memoriam: Eugene Arthur Sadler; 

Son, Brother, Soldier, Friend!

Can't  sleep knowing I'll  be taking a man I have known for over forty years to his final resting place in just a few short hours...

But the worst of the storm has passed, 

Those dreadful tears have done their worst, 

And the pent up rage of knowing

Becomes my saving grace...

To all who are lamenting

In darkest hours like these

Those lost days of youthful exuberance

Rekindle in a wink of an eye

With every re-telling beside the flames

In a camp fire come morning

Becomes a spark for a new day dawning

As the embers glow

We shall remember nothing is lost

Only time we could have spent

And witnessed a slower decline.

So live as he would wish

And hope as he now knows

That we shall all gather once again

Lift a glass

And laugh at all our suffering

From the past.

Amen

D.A. Wittler 5/9/20