Dissolving days
Quietness all round, another year dawning
Nothing moves, no noise, none of last night’s clatter
Nobody stirs, people sleep; shattered
Dreaming memories of the night before
Last year, never again, will open its doors.
Whenever you rise on the First you’ll hear,
Tick-tock, tick-tock, the constant tick of time
Showing no mercy, no solace, no rhyme,
Draining our lives, slipping away,
Showing too quickly how quickly we can turn grey.
Time frightens us; it lengthens the gap.
Between the places we’ve been,
And the place we’re at.
Maybe it’s true, time does take away.
A second here, a minute there.
A couple of unwanted days.
But important events are locked away
Safe from time-dissolving days
Life-changing events touch our souls
Keeping us warm when we grow old.
Memories stay vivid, never to die?
Bringing our hearts together where memories lie.
Time cannot erode memories
Give it year, a decade, memories with weather
Against periods of time if they are to measure
Memories and time will matt together.
So come this year, next and beyond
Tick time out on the ever beating drum
You can make us older, wiser and fatter.
But you cannot take the memories that matter.
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