We live our lives completely blind to this oblivion we call

Time.

I still don’t understand and perhaps never will understand

how one day can go by, a lifetime of television fading away

Into a dim light of icy frost and a blue glare, man-made and

Artificial

with

a flickering, dancing flame blowing in the wind going

Out

Remember

The days of lying on wet grass, dew drops clinging to hair

as our hands clung to one another

Pressing fresh blossoms of pink flowers to our lips, we ask where

Our lives went

After all this time

Now we ride on the beach on horses the color of smooth

Caramel

perhaps a few years down we continue on white hills

That look like elephants, yes, that was a novel I read once perhaps--

the camera repositions and in a click we are transported

to a bright area with bustling schoolchildren and the smell of rich spices

in a marketplace that looks like Mecca

Facebook reopens and pictures are posted and

I am once again moving faster than I ever have through a cloud of

White fog and relentless memories.

The sour taste on my tongue reminds me of you as my pencil

Scratches bare characters of what is called mandarin on a sheet of

Boxed paper where lines and squiggles mean nothing

In this geometric land.

Take me far away from here where the time is cruel

And merciless, where we don’t have to watch the suffering that goes on

And I won’t have to say goodbye time and time again as I leave yet for another

Pointless

Journey to the road we call the future.

And I know life awaits and a future lies steady still but I want to stay here

Smelling the soil that fills with porous rain and life that is reborn

And I want to stay awake and take in all the time that I have with

You.

And I want you to smile and think and capture this image in

my mind forever

Forever

Because without it I am

blind.