If Time Stood Still...

Sometimes I'm tempted to wish time would stand still when the late flower-blooms are as perfect as the flawless sky,

...or on days like this when, as the weatherman said, 'the calendar says fall but the thermometer says summer' 

but...

 

If Time stood still then we would never meet again; Farewell

Would be a deafening and never-ending tolling knell

Hello would slip from lips without a skip-a- heartbeat thrill

And we would cherish nothing, oh my love, if time stood still

If Time stood still then we would weary of even love’s best

Our laughter would be empty, void of joy or sorrow’s zest

This hunger that we toy with would wail, stripped of hope to fill

Its ill with something better, oh my love, if Time stood still

If Time stood still the lifeblood of daydreams would ebb away

Darling, there would be nothing to live for but yesterday

As we would mourn the loss of haste where wide-eyed seasons spill

And life would be a wasteland, oh my love, if Time stood still

© Janet Martin