Time

I tried to be the guardian of time but it kept slipping through my fingers,
Like a band on the Mississippi, I could hear the distant singers,
In my heart, my mind, the bittersweet memory lingers,
Without the alarm bells of memory or cerebral reminders,
Or the usual restrictions, self-restraint that all hinders,
Time gallops forward with unusually dark blinders,
Relentlessly, unconsciously, slipping through my fingers.
© Rebecca Stevens 2020
