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.