The Way Time Flows

  

(this cute video is quite profound)

Emily and I were talking tonight about how we wish we could keep more memories, some simply fade too fast. So we live in the now, let go of its moment and hold on to its memories until some of those too, fade in life's stream...

Nothing now but memories

That’s the way time flows

Through our fingertips with ease

Falls its fading rose

Lilt of laughter, Kiss good-bye

Itty-bitty tear

Flowing to thought’s sweetheart-sky

…memories, my dear

Once upon a blue bygone

Yester-year was now

There we laid its moments down

In time’s forward flow

Where the pictures that we threw

Soft into its tide

Paint a portrait-avenue

Somewhere deep inside

I can touch you now, my dear

Though long we have lost

Afternoons of yester-year

That loosely we tossed

Without thought into a stream

Rushing to repose

Sometimes life seems but a dream

That’s the way time flows

© Janet Martin