TAKE THAT -- TIME
Time won’t come out to play It won’t bargain for a return trip or make an exchange of …a year, a week, a day For any reason No matter how devout Wrongly condemned prisoners Released after decades Must hate time For not opening up And giving back what everyone agrees should not have been taken Or a persistent old scientist rediscovering a forgotten element He once encountered as a young lab assistant The one that could have made all the difference to his life experiment Killjoy time Has firm rules against a do-over. And I suppose it likes having sayings written about itself… If I knew now what I knew then… Making up for lost time… Since time won’t play along I compensate in the present Willing as much experience into a single moment as can be allowed. Take that -- time.