It's called Time, Time, Will You Stay The Night

Here's to Time,

the natural event which robs us all

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Time, Time, Will You Stay The Night?

If I could ask you to stay

If just for tonight,

Would a simple bequest

Be enough to make you stay, Time?

Because you’ve made everybody wishing

That the grass is greener on the other side.

The youth dream of being old

And the old dream of being young.

It shows that you have no soul,

You cold hearted mistress,

And begs me to believe that your inner qualities

Are not what they really seem to be.

Prudent and bold, that’s what you are,

With no pity to humble man and their ever present quest

To become something more than just fertilizer to the Earth.

Great Caesar, Great Alexander, Great Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle,

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,

Made into no more than the clay beneath my feet.

So Time, Time, before you go

Is one night to ask for

So hard to understand?

You can ask me to reconsider

Or understand the workings of a stable relationship.

But as far as I’m aware

You make us too short, too fragile, too unworthy of being able to waste time.

We don’t have petty time to waste acting higher or better,

Acting like the rest of the world does

As if you’re in their pocket.

Their pocket? Their pocket?

Really?

Can money or love or any of the above be enough to persuade you

To stay, if even for a moment?

Believe it or not,

All I am trying is to fight the odds and hold on

Though everyone knows it has to go.

Then why, might I ask,

Are they so insistent on acting like there is always a tomorrow?

Any second could be their last, any breath could have no repeat,

Any simple step could be their end.

So Time, Time,

You move too fast,

Am I just a favor before your last?

Time, Time,

You have no worry of growing old

And that leads to the jealousy and hate in my throat.

But I just want you to know,

Before you go and decide to walk out this door,

That my request is still open

For a one-night stand, one for the ages,

With you alone, Time,

For if it was a choice between Death and the eternal December I’m stuck in,

I’ll take you on any night.