Literature
The Passing of Time
The Passing of Time
In our time we will see many things that change;
bittersweet differences that plague our quiet hours,
and instill a sense of nostalgia for times all but forgotten.
We seek to recapture thought, or innocence, lost with age;
to forcibly renew the superfluous sentiments, the budding flowers
we discarded without thought--the fragments of our lives turned rotten.
Still, there is no pleasure in capturing a moment that time has left estranged.
When one time falls into the abyss, it will never return; only become our
source of indefinite lament, that we did not save a time misbegotten.
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