Time Machine

Prepare the time machine

we’re going back to an old date

flick the switches

start the engines
I swirl
through the curling mists of time

cluttered memories fly by

crashing through crystal window years
fragmenting around my ears

We reach a day

when sunlight trickled through treetop shade

like a mysterious alien wave

we were too entranced to notice

too enchanted by loves hypnosis

lost in dance we never saw the signs looming

lost in romance we never heard the sirens booming

we just lay under the tree lined sky 

a canopy keeping our dreams from flying high

we slept in the cool night air

and drank in the morning birdsong fanfare

I flip a switch, time lurches forward a bit

a few months as the clocks tick

here we sit
still love plays a beat

but its hit or miss

the first blooms have turned out to be weeds

they strangle the roots of our love trees

kisses laced with anger
passion filled with resentment

etched lines of love
sentiment left on a park bench

once treasured

but like the story that grows

now weathered

Tear lined eyes find the dial

turn to a year and push the lever full throttle

love left the room

but somehow, we remained

shackled, chained to a life of gloom

one where a word was enough to start a storm like rain

a world where time sank down the drain

we just existed to be

we lived to pass a day

but we tried to find light 

we would sometimes laugh all night

then we would fight

a cycle

recycling old lines to try to find some magic

Flip the years forward
through the haze
hurt, my reward
I see a fragile man, a shell

barely a shadow of his former self

walking through hell

as fire ravages his mind

alone now
the magic of a watered-down love

withered
like a flower devoid of care

lost 

no hope to share

One last trip, to yesterday

been forever and a day
since I thought of you

all the pain and misery

swept away in a flood

lost in the history books

all the tear lined eyes weary looks

the lies that you told never stuck

now I can see hope in the distance
I hear songs of living
I feel love in my heart
ready for giving

Thanks For Reading.

Peace & Love.

Kyle.