Time a Friend or Time a Foe

 

 

 

Time is such a persistent foe who we wrestle til he bids us go

A foolish battle we never win but engage it over and again

To hold time to the pleasant now and by our will to make it bow

And find the ones that please our heart and bind them there to not depart

To give their secrets and ever share all the pleasures that abide them there

And make the sun to stay in place to never more complete its race

So this their time would ever stay and this their sun would light their play

But such a time there never was for time will do what it always does

Children can’t forever play and the sun will set and end their day

But in their heart dwells an eternal touch that leaves the hope to dream for such

And what we thought was not our friend bids us til the truth we tend

To temper us to firmly hold eternal things as we grow old

Till when we reach our courses end and final breath and air doth blend

We’ve nothing vain for time though fleeting prepared us for eternal greeting

He who turned our memories to past, showed to us the things that last

Who took from us our strength and glory til we understood the timeless story

This is the Creators way until time becomes eternal day.

And our dream can then forever be, me with you and you with me.