Trite phrases galore <br />Memory plays tricks with time <br />Mirages that with the years <br />Made believe what was unreal. <br /> <br />If I had thought I would have lived so long <br />Or come to this sad sorry pass <br />I guess I would have said-pass <br />But time trickled on <br />Like sand in the hourglass <br /> <br />There's a perpetual reason to go through the years <br />Amazing as it may well seem <br />Some think its destiny <br />And others a form of being free <br /> <br />And here in the midst of modernity <br />What is the belief that keeps people scurrying <br />Jumping running sprinting panting <br /> <br />Living lives that build and build <br />Mushroom clouds, and you and me and them <br />And women free and unfree <br />Walls that are higher and higher <br /> <br />Time, pass me by please <br />Leave me against this old stone wall <br />Just leave me be. <br /> <br />Copyright Rani Turton 2008<br /><br />Rani Turton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/forgetting-but-not-forgotten/
