In Dialogue with Time

Once again, i fell asleep

Dwellin’ deeply on my thoughts

What if i woke at a different time

I’d wake as someone else?

What if i woke in a different place

Would i be someone else?

Back then, she’d first appeared

And rouse me from my silken slumber

She smiled an inviting smile

And mouthed words i’ve heard hardly ever

“thou canst.”

Awed, as she’s approaching me

From nowhere she came, saying:

“i fly with the wind. take hold of me;

Don’t let me slide, for we will unlikely meet again.”

My heart was beating faster then,

Her words did raise my hopes

What if i woke at a diff’rent time

I’d wake as someone else?

What if i woke in a diff’rent place

Could i be someone else?

“thou canst”, she’d reassert,

“provided that you meet conditions,

Just put your faith in me and seize!

And all you seek will soon be yours!”

I felt her lyin’ next to me,

Then gently she rose, my fingers let slip her long hair

Avoiding the gaze of her eyes

Belied with the iffiness i have shown

Shivers so cold ran down my spine

As she kissed me goodbye, i gathered myself, asking her name

Then she told me:

“i subdue all things, i’m the one known under the name of time.”

Numb, as i realised, she went on to reveal

Her sad voice yet resounds in me:

“your supreme moment i could’ve been, if you had only confided in me.”

Late, i regained my poise; she’d gone

Her scent’s still in the air

So faint, so vague

As if to ever bring to mind

All that will never be