I see the time ablaze in words

You say anthromorphosize, I say personify

The unexploded bombs from time stymied by Neanderthals

Marriage, time, cats and mice, giants and death.

 

At 35,000 feet Amber felt time tread through treacle

Oblivious breath, eaten cake, crumbs old but edited

The girl in the topaz dress looked through the window

And her loneliness crashed in a silver of shards

Drowning in time, hidden, safe as death

Isolation from failed protection of my childhood,

The window once closed, now open, and I am free,

In the sun, insecurity diced and dead.

 

Turning both of their kisses into a freezing moment

Before she turned away and gone

In a paper cup, rewriting the tea leaves

Step between raindrops falling

Praying for an endless winter of love

As hope plummeted like an anchor

Carried aloft my tongue turned in the rain

Fantasy met sci-fi as Red hid under the bed

Time, time, time is our troubling element.