Time - My Muse

As I stand on the shore

Reflecting on everything

Happening in and around me

I know he has the answer

I know he has the solution

But He was silent without motion.

I had cried and screamed

Begged on my kneels

Tears rolling down my cheeks

He stood still with the same smile

There silence in the air did not retreat

I threatened to kill myself,

I threatened to run away,

I threatened to retreat from life's way,

I threatened to not care,

I stood alone with only my shadow to spare

He continued to remain a mystery.

Broken heart,

Tear strained cheeks,

Weakened shoulders,

Weary feet,

Empty hands,

I stood like a shell

Only to be brushed aside by

Another wave…

Time - the man I wonder;

Has an answer to all my questions

But still remains quiet and unmoved

Unshaken and unaltered.

With every passing day

With every minute I am gifted

Everything changes.

Time has its own way,

And I realized the game

The best I could do

Was to let it be the same.

What hurts the most?

I’ve always wondered

What hurts the most?

Losing the one we love for a friend? Or

Losing our friend for the one we love?

Wanting someone to love us? Or

Loving someone without being loved?

Being trusted by the one we hate? Or

Loving someone we cannot trust?

Thinking about a life that was? Or

Dreaming of a life that could have been?

Letting time escape with memories? Or

Holding on to memories with every passing minute?

Smiling when you know you don’t mean it? Or

Crying when you know you mean it?

Holding on to a person who was yours? Or

Holding on to the memories of a person who could be yours?

Loving just because you want to live? Or

Living just because you want to love?

Looking at an opportunity you let go? Or

Yearning for an opportunity you know will never come your way?

Expecting an answer to the questions of life? Or

Knowing the answers you can’t accept?