#1087 - time will not pass between us

 

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time will not pass between us

 

wherever whenever

it will be then

 

just as it was

as we were

each in other’s eyes

 

hail!

though with our wisdom

 

a world of less wars

things are cheaper too

 

no intervening

but that we have lived

it was a dream

 

have we the curtains?

nor so hard a sun

much was milkcrate eking

 

wherever whenever we meet

it is then

trees less

the street returns

 

all the calendar vanities crumble

there haven’t been the plagues

we dressed as for the time

drove, if at all, what we could afford

 

a well used world

everyone was alive

 

you could stay up all night

go terrace to terrace

kitchen, front steps

 

the body pleasures

its punishments all novel

mull

 

none knew the golden age

or sat the bough to sing

 

we were…?

what were we then?

blank slates, much wept

 

acheless, everything yet to make

 

you see how we’ve survived

 

do we look up?

there was weekend then

 

we will compromise later

 

the alarm clock won’t be invented

 

we’re in bed

 

and it’s never the morning

               where we wake

not after such a night