Magpie Tales 189: Benchmarks and Time

benchmarks

and time

don't consume me.

I fill voids,

take root, 

bequeath beauty, 

(at least for 

beholders) 

we made 

the perfect couple. 

now no one 

notices this flow 

of measured years.

every hour 

is memory, 

each second 

alone a clarion

call:

I won't allow 

disparaging of 

my consort  to 

weathered 

beauty. 

Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 

Image by crilleb50  shared by Tess Kincaid