in a maudlin mood

[heartless_poet]

i wish for a power
to be a hero who can stop time
time, that traitor
that straightlaced linear lucifer
i wish to break it and bend
and bid it to realign itself
so that those disparate moments
are clubbed together
and today will be the day
when you love me again
for i long to be with you now,
as you did once
but i am mortal and mere
and time eludes us
as it goes about its merry journey.
looking ahead
with scant respect, leaving behind
a bleeding trail of shattered hearts
unkind, cruel time
but you? won't you be kind?
i beg you for these fleeting moments,
smile not, my lost love
atleast not when we talk of him
and i will go to bed now, thinking
dreaming, that maybe...

- Laurent Chevalier