Time Sits Beside Me, A Poem

I can. 

Time sits beside me, reminding me 

I can stop time / 

I can go back in time / 

I can go forward in time. 

 

Every time that I am with you, 

I can stop the hour and minute hand. 

To hold yours. 

I can relieve those memories 

Where time stopped,

Where I lost track of time

I can finally see you again— 

I can finally speak the language that 

I don’t speak anymore. 

My thoughts won’t.

Walk. 

I can change my Mind. 

I won’t fall. 

For ---

I’ll know what happens next — 

What breaks, what fears, what successes, 

what dreams, What experiences. 

I’ll know. 

All the fragments of truth. 

Time stands in front of me, reminding me 

I can’t. 

And time turns clockwise. 

If only 

I could /