TIME FLIES

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TIME FLIES,

Tempus fugit,

So the ancient adage goes.

But it prompts me to say,

Hey Virgil, this is stupid stuff,

Because for me at home alone

The clock has stopped.

Then, when I take another glance,

I realize from the timepiece's face

That I had been mistaken, my impression wrong,

There has been some movement,

That the clock’s hands have apparently moved.

Yet far from time fleeting,

The hours drag, even the second hand --

Its motion becomes imperceptibly slow,

When you are gone and

Day and night must be faced alone.

And you write to me and say that before long

You will return home. You declare that

Less than three weeks remain,

Soon, you add, your absence this day turns to memory,

And confidently note that time really does fly!

But for me, however you may try to comfort me,

Your consolation, it does nothing to hasten the hours!

When I hear the clock, note the spaces

Between its regular tick-to-tock, those intervals,

They appear as if they were eternity, and your absence

-- Your face no longer upon your pillow,

Your body missing from your side of the bed --

You, you seem now to have been gone forever.

I know. I know. I exaggerate!

Yet I am not acclimated to them,

These phenomena of your leaving,

Your terrible disappearances for the sake of business,

These separations, I may never become used to them.

You were reared different from me.

When you were still a child,

Your father was a frequent traveler;

You became habituated to the longing,

And you learned to practice

The ruse which had told your inner self that

He will be home before you know it.

I can hear you and your mother practicing the phrase,

When dad was gone and you two sat at home alone,

“Oh the days go by so fast!”

The electronic image of time before me

(to the bottom-right on the computer screen)

It reads 8:59PM.

It sits. It waits. My God, Darling!

My God! I hope you see the situation.

My condition is desperate.

The clock no longer runs.

For me here and languishing without you

Time stops.

I wish you were in my arms tonight.