(This was written by my lovely daughter, Abigail)
I wanted to write a little forward to my poem.
See I wrote this on October 15, 2021 at 12:44 AM and don't really remember doing it. Indeed, I had completely forgotten about it until I was perusing through my old files and came across this. I am a little proud of it and showed Mom, to which she said she wanted to post it on her blog.
So, here it is... interpret it as you will...
How does one capture moments?
Reach out and grasp the intangible movement of time?
Remember the sights
Smells
Sounds
The light reflecting
The sun shining
Or the number of stars
The exact expression on a face
Or the pitch of a laugh
You can’t grasp moments
They slip through your fingers like sand.
Always moving
Always changing with time
How do you take those moments and grasp them in your fingers?
Hold them tight to your chest and refuse to let time dimmish their glory?
How to save them from being tarnished by the passage and nature of time?
How to hold onto the feelings
How to remember a moment?
Time is not a friend to anyone.
It takes and rips away our most precious things.
Time destroys our memories
Even ourselves.
Time is not a friend
It is an enemy.
It has claws that rip away what we hold precious
How to stop time in its tracks?
How to spit on the irony of it?
The sky darkens
The sun comes up
Stars look down
Clouds scurry along
Waves crash
Grass grows
Seasons change
The earth spins
The universe turns
Galaxies form
Yet we still grasp that one memory.
That one smile
One laugh
One movement
One word.
We don’t matter compared to the vast unawareness of the universe.
One person eats away at one thing
Disappointed to learn that the world forgets.
The universe doesn’t care.
Time is not a friend
It makes you forget.
Yet…
Sometimes it is better to forget
We will never know the stings of the past that time has wiped away for us.
Maybe time can be gentle
Maybe sometimes it relents its claws and soothes our minds from some harshness
Maybe it can be a friend
But we will never know
Because we will forget.